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techadvisor23

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Built a PC about five and a half years ago and my GPU just isn't keeping up with the games I want to play so I'm looking for a cheap upgrade to satisfy my needs. I'm currently running a 6850 1gb card and I've had my eyes on something I can afford such as a 560/1050, I see 60+ fps on low settings and would like to get that on medium/high settings, maybe ultra with some tweaks to some settings who knows. My question is about finding a card that will work with my older mobo that is legacy bios and not uefi.

My current motherboard is a MSI 890FXA-GD70 (https://us.msi.com/Motherboard/890FXAGD70/Specification)

Will the 560 and 1050 (maybe 1050ti) work on this? I've seen a lot of issues with uefi on older legacy bios boards but I also have seen people plugging in 1080s to this board and not being very smart I need some help.

I know the simple solution would just be upgrade my board since there are some really good budget ones out these days but that'd require me to switch from DDR3 240pin to DDR4 288pin which is expensive right now, and possibly a new CPU and I just don't have that kind of money unfortunately.
 
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I hate to say 'it depends' but it really does. One, settings such as medium/high are in part dependent on how much videocard vram you have. Some games might require more than 2gb vram to use higher settings. So while a 1050 would be much faster than your 6850, you'd only have 1gb more vram. How high the settings you can use depends on the game we are talking about.

That motherboard uses the 850 chipset, which was fairly advanced for AMD compared to something like a 760 or 785, so it wouldn't surprise me if you didn't have bios issues even without UEFI.

You can't upgrade your motherboard. It would mean getting the new motherboard AND a new CPU AND DDR4 system ram AND the new videocard. In effect you'd be buying a new computer.

An alternative, that would guarantee compatibility, is to buy used. An HD 7870 or equivalent(R9 270x) would get you more or less to RX 560/GTX 1050 range. An HD 7970 or equivalent would get you to 1050 Ti range. Make sure your power supply can handle it. That's one advantage new cards have, they use much less power.
 
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techadvisor23

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"You can't upgrade your motherboard. It would mean getting the new motherboard AND a new CPU AND DDR4 system ram AND the new videocard. In effect you'd be buying a new computer."

Yeah that's the biggest issue with the budget I have. Primarily running a MMO "FFXIV" which is probably around the same demand in resources as WoW I'd guess? I'll look around at the 7870s and R9 270x, they might be more forgiving on my budget while being an upgrade until I can afford a new system. Thanks for the reply hopefully I can find something that works out.

EDIT: looking at some 7000 series and R9 even R7 series they're more expensive than the 1050s and such, maybe I'm looking the wrong place o.o
 
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