What Graphics cards will MSI Z68A-GD80(G3) INTEL Z68 CHIPSET Motherboard support

t3hfr0 · Oct 29, 2017

I ordered in a GTX 1050 ti to upgrade from my GTX 580 only to have the guy at the store mention it won't install and it was an issue with my motherboard compatibility . He recommend a R7 240 Radeon card... Which I've never used AMD in the past but mentioned the PC was mainly used for gaming and that I just needed to upgrade the graphics card. Getting home I find that the card he sold me is benchmarked below my current card (GTX 580) size wise the GTX 580 is a lot larger (has a built in fan) in comparison (the R7 looks to be the size of a GT710)

With out getting too off track I know that from the MSI forums (4 years ago) people mentioned flashing the bios to V25.8 and it would support a GTX 970.
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=184633.0

I'm just trying to figure out whats the next step up I can take with my desktop for a video card.

Specs:
chipset:MSI Z68A-GD80(G3) INTEL Z68
power:1000w
CPU: i7-2600K
Memory - 16gb
Current GPU: (Old) SUPERCLOCK EVGA NVIDIA GTX 580 1.5GB
(New?) AMD Radeon R7 240

Any help is appreciated, suggestions to upgrade the card with the chipset would be really appreciated.

Nick501 · Oct 29, 2017

Super easy answer here, anything you want to put in there, it'll work.

Complex answer: you're running a pretty old processor so I would look into getting a new CPU as if you get a brand new card you're going to see the CPU bottleneck it a good bit, but something a little older is fine, I would definitely recommend getting a GPU of at least 2GB dedicated, all dependent on what you're asking this PC to do.

t3hfr0 · Oct 30, 2017

Nick501 :

Thanks for the response Nick!

That's what I was thinking. The place fixing the PC (one of the HDD drives died with the OS and I couldn't find the disks around my apartment so I took it in) replaced a hard drive and reformated and installed the drivers. When I was getting them. To swap the older video card for an upgrade (1050 Gtx Ti) he said he tried to put the card into the slot but it wasn't flashing on the screen or showing at all. He said it was a compatiblity issue with the motherboard...

I know the motherboard is old but I don't think it's old enough or hardwear has changed enough to render it incompatible just yet. I am planning on upgrading it along with the older Sandy bridge CPU because as you mentioned the bottle neck issue and I'd like to get into some better games down the road.

So when your video card isn't reading on the motherboard is that more of a bios issue? Did he maybe not update the bios before attempting to install?

Nick501 · Oct 30, 2017

t3hfr0 :

Nick501 :

Thanks for the response Nick!

That's what I was thinking. The place fixing the PC (one of the HDD drives died with the OS and I couldn't find the disks around my apartment so I took it in) replaced a hard drive and reformated and installed the drivers. When I was getting them. To swap the older video card for an upgrade (1050 Gtx Ti) he said he tried to put the card into the slot but it wasn't flashing on the screen or showing at all. He said it was a compatiblity issue with the motherboard...

I know the motherboard is old but I don't think it's old enough or hardwear has changed enough to render it incompatible just yet. I am planning on upgrading it along with the older Sandy bridge CPU because as you mentioned the bottle neck issue and I'd like to get into some better games down the road.

So when your video card isn't reading on the motherboard is that more of a bios issue? Did he maybe not update the bios before attempting to install?

It is most likely going to come down to an issue of power for this one, I don't see any reason why the board would reject the card other than the card not being plugged into an external power source that might have been not plugged in when putting it in.

Satan-IR · Oct 31, 2017

Only other reason for incompatibility might be because of the graphics card's UEFI BIOSes but that's usually the case with very old systems. Your motherboard is no *that* old.

That motherboard according to MSI website has PCIE 3.0 slots running at X16 but the Intel Z68 chipset has according to Intel 16 lanes of PCIE 2 (or 2x8 lanes). The rest handles by the chipset/board I guess.

https://ark.intel.com/products/52816

I agree the card should work and maybe a BIOS update would improve support which is usually documented on manufacturers websites and such.

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