HP Pavilion 1280t - best compatible video card?

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clamato1

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Hi, I may want to upgradie this machine's gpu to an Nvidia card since I think my current card (radeon 7950) is bad.

My question - what's the fastest Nvidia card that will work with this machine?
600w psu
IPIWB-PB (pittsburgh) motherboard
updated to latest Bios level 7.15

I understand this motherboard isn't compatible with newer cards that use the 'maxwell' chip and require Bios 8. I've already tried gtx 970 cards and got the hp logo, black screen and beeping. My hunch is this mobo is unable to run gtx 700 series cards, possibly 600 series as well.

i realize it may be a better just to buy a new mobo but that's a little more time consuming.
Thanks for any info.
 
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What brand of 970 did you try? I've had problems with older motherboards and maxwell in the past but that was with mostly evga cards. Some brands like MSI I believe have an automatic feature that kicks on if it detects older bios so you can use the newer video cards. I'm not 100% sure, but I know I remember reading something in the past about it.
 
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Hi, I've tried new Asus and Gigabyte gtx 970 cards. Same results with both. Interesting about MSI maybe being backwards compatible. Thanks.

i bought this desktop in 2012. Makes me very sad that it's not more easily upgradeable but i can see why companies like hp and dell arrange things that way, it's much better for them. Boo.

 
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You can't buy a basic home model or corporate system and expect it to be up-gradable. If you get an HP or Dell that is built as a Workstation, you can upgrade those much easier. I actually have used Workstation systems as my main systems even for games with a video card swap, many times did not even need a new power supply since they come with good ones.

The home systems are made to be cheap and stable on their base configuration not for easy upgrading or even changing components outside of the OEM parts. The issue with upgrading it, is not really an issue with the system but with working on the wrong thing. Like saying that the boat you made using paper does not seem to want to float well and saying that the paper maker is bad LOL

 
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clamato1

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A friend just mentioned the same thing about workstations being more upgradable - a good point and maybe I'm not being totally fair to hp.

So, I've decided against the idea to upgrade the hp machine with a new card. It seems more practical for me to just build or buy a new machine now.

Maybe someone reading this and experiencing the same issue will want to try a MSI brand gtx 970 card to see if that one's backwards compatible. After trying out a couple new cards already I think I'm done experimenting.

Thanks for the replies and suggestions, all.
 
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Hi, I use a motherboard from 2012 HP computer (motherboard is IPISB-CH2) in my rig, and this one was also not compatible with Nvidia GTX 700 and up. However, AMD R9 series from Sapphire are compatible with old motherboard with Legacy bios by factory default or have a little switch that allows them to pass from UEFI to Legacy. I first had an R9 270x from sapphire that worked perfectly and I upgraded now to a R9 290 trix-x, wich has the Bios switch and it works perfectly. I know you mentioned you wanted to go with Nvidia, but those cards are really great if you want to take a look. Also we don't have the exact same motherboard so I don't know, it might change something. Hope it helps.
 
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