Do i need a BIOS update?

LanderSK · May 14, 2017

Hi, my friend recently bought a GTX 1050 SSC from EVGA and he is getting worse fps than his old radeon 7700hd. Can it be because he doesnt have hisBIOS updated? He has MSI a55 e33 mobo.
8gb of ddr3 ram. amd athlon x4 740. and if isnt by bios what is the problem then??
thx in advance

And would a g4560 be a good choice for change ?

Serenity_3 · May 14, 2017

You need to install drivers. I had a little scare when I got bad fps with my new gtx 1060 and remembered you need to get the drivers

http://www.geforce.com/geforce-experience

Also, I'd suggest you upgrade the other parts in your system sometime soon - there will be some pretty significant bottlenecks because of the cpu

Dunlop0078 · May 14, 2017

Did they get rid of the amd drivers and install the proper nvidia drivers for the 1050? I doubt you need to update the bios.

LanderSK · May 14, 2017

Serenity_3 :

i did

LanderSK · May 14, 2017

Dunlop0078 :

yop he did but he got bad fps still

but this happened to my pc too and when i reinstalled thenm it worked but with him it didnt

Serenity_3 · May 14, 2017

Might be your gpu struggling to work with the older components but that seems very unlikely as my friend is running a 10 year old core 2 quad q6600 and a gtx 950. I honestly don't know what's going on here

jooshi · May 14, 2017

that cpu is really old tho, like museum old. same with the mobo, so a bios updates isnt that far fetched. or some kind of tweaks to get it performing its max potential

Serenity_3 · May 14, 2017

Post a pic of the pc as you have it right now. Maybe you aren't plugging in something

jooshi · May 14, 2017

dont think the 1050 have any cables to plug in

LanderSK · May 14, 2017

jooshi :

it doesnt it takes power from pcie

LanderSK · May 14, 2017

Serenity_3 :

and everything is plugged in cause we only changed gpus nothing else and that pc is working 7 years

jooshi · May 14, 2017

what windows he using? might be it works best on like windows 8 and newer

LanderSK · May 14, 2017

jooshi :

win7 and he is gonna upgrade to win10 in few days

jooshi · May 14, 2017

LanderSK :

yeah maby wait until then, a clean w10 install might just do the trick

LanderSK · May 14, 2017

jooshi :

LanderSK :

yeah maby wait until then, a clean w10 install might just do the trick

Ok we will try thx for helping

LanderSK · May 14, 2017

Serenity_3 :

But its amd so what do you expect

Ryzen is the only line up which is good from them (my thought)
but thx for helping

Dark Lord of Tech · May 14, 2017

Some older motherboards have a BIOS incompatibility issue with 700-1000 series Nvidia Cards and they won't run on them.

Do i need a BIOS update?

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