will GTX 1060 work with MotherBoard Gigabyte EP43-DS3L with no UEFI Bios?

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i have a motherboard Gigabyte EP43-DS3L that supports PCI2.0 with core2quad Q6600 CPU and i plan first to get gtx 1060 and new power supply than after 3 months i plan to update cpu and motherboard

I wonder if this MotherBoard gigabyte EP43-DS3L with no UEFI BIOS will work with GTX 1060 card?

Thanks
 
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contact like evga support and see how they answer you ?

if not just but the card and see for yourself it will work as expected or it will not these cards may not work on newer stuff then yours with full uefi bios's unless they got bios updated that support the cards

now the rest of the risk is all on you if you find like motherboards [exact same ] and the card works ??? I'd get a same asus card then there cards v-bios may have legacy support ??
or there older first release bios cards ?

like I said I would not risk it , but all you can do is what you feel is best and good luck

its all going to come down to that bios handshake
900 card and above need full uefi bios and then that's no guarantee unless the uefi bios in new oir its been updated to support newer cards

like here for example

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3184420/gigabyte-z77-d3h-ver-problems-installing-zotac-gtx-1070-amp.html

see he had a uefi bios but it did not support the newer cards until he used the latest beta bios and did [got lucky]

this guy maybe just S.O.L and left holding the bag ??

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3181106/graphics-card-issue-gtx-980.html

I would not risk it plenty of forums and all on this
 

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i have check youtube and found that there a user who have similar specs and able to run gtx 970
the link is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6POQFcOT5Co
and if you check the comments you will see it use Gigabyte P35-DS3 mother board

and other link on youtube with ASUS P5QL Motherbaord(P45 chipset) with RX-480 card
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29DgG-RsVeM

also there review where they have benchmark q6600 with gtx 980
at http://www.techspot.com/article/1039-ten-years-intel-cpu-compared/page5.html

so i wonder if gtx 970 works than will gtx 1060 works? or i will still need UEFI bios?
 
contact like evga support and see how they answer you ?

if not just but the card and see for yourself it will work as expected or it will not these cards may not work on newer stuff then yours with full uefi bios's unless they got bios updated that support the cards

now the rest of the risk is all on you if you find like motherboards [exact same ] and the card works ??? I'd get a same asus card then there cards v-bios may have legacy support ??
or there older first release bios cards ?

like I said I would not risk it , but all you can do is what you feel is best and good luck

its all going to come down to that bios handshake
 
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Really thanks to all ,James Mason, yours replies help me a lot

By the way i have other issue as my PC case can handle a vga card length till 27.2 mm while both msi gaming x and gigabyte gamimg length around 27.4 mm to 28mm which left me with EVGA cards or gigabyte windforce or zotac or asus dual cards

-last i have searched net and found a link below that that confirms "junkeymonkey" solutions that it is matter of bios handshake compatibility
https://www.reddit.com/r/graphicscard/comments/4zuiq8/gtx_1060_requires_uefi_bios_to_work/
 
http://forums.evga.com/GTX-1060-series-and-Legacy-BIOS-m2534700.aspx

you could roll the dice on the card but ?? you got to know your 775 is a outdated phased out forgot platform and these new cards are for latest systems . even if it was to work all your old system is going to do is chock the card from its full performance..

maybe at best I would go with a gtx 750 ti or just something in the 700 series if you can find anything over the 750 these days [there phased out now as well and gone ]

the push / trend going on today is to get rid and you off all this old hardware by them not having full if any support for them

now its you support them instead of them supporting you and your needs and if you want to use there latest parts you better have all the latest hardware to run it on

like how its got with windows 10 I feel in 2 years if you don't use 10 your not using anything anymore cause they will drop all support for anything under it as well [hide and watch] its all coming down to super proprietary there way or no way

these parts are geared for uefi use and it may work somewhat under legiay bios but then may not get full features or what ever doing so ?

this was on of the concerns when uefi came in to play was the fact venders can now manipulate there hardware in how they feel it can be used on on what it can be used on all they now got to do is add or remove microcode and dictate if it will work on something or not

so if msi were to say there cards will only work on there boards all they got to do is adjust the uefi bios and lock out what ever they want to for a example and if they don't share the microcodes with say asrock or asus too bad so sad its a no go

sad thing is folks thing its all good and the best ever and just don't know what there doing to them selves like accepting Microsoft ways as great when its all a proprietary trap and now your stuck like how it is with pc games .. think if you could load and play games on Linux as easy as you can windows woukld you still pay 100$ for windows when Linux does all the rest as easy for free ??

get it ??

same concerns with newer AMD cards as well ?

https://community.amd.com/thread/202679

https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/no-uefi-mobo-no-480-10xx.2479452/

bottom line is you need to get a new up to the date system
 

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