Graphics Card compatability

manjulal · Jul 18, 2018

Hello,

I have got an old PC lying around at home which I want to use as an HTPC with some moderate gaming as well. The primary objective is to play 4K movies on a 4K TV/Projector using this HTPC as the media centre.

The PC uses an Intel DH55TC motherboard with 4 GB DDR3 RAM. I was thinking of adding a decent graphics card like the Zotac GeForce GTX 1050 Ti OC Edition ZT-P10510B-10L 4GB PCI Express Graphics Card. Will my motherboard support this? The MB has a PCI Express 2.0 x 16 expansion slot.

Lutfij · Jul 18, 2018

The highest I'd recommend that you put in terms of a GPU is a GTX750Ti...there's a high chance that the GTX1000 series will give you a black screen in spite of the system booting to GUI, due to an incompatible UEFI BIOS environment.

You should rather state the specs to your build like so:
CPU:
Motherboard:
Ram:
SSD/HDD:
GPU:
PSU:
Chassis:
OS:

On that note, I'd stay away from 4K gaming on your setup. Watching movies, that's another matter and you're going to need a little more ram than 4GB. More like 8GB in this day and age.

boju · Jul 18, 2018

7, 9 and 10 series Nvidia cards run hybrid vbios with both legacy and uefi support. Trouble arises if running a non uefi gpu (6 series) on an uefi only motherboard then a black screen is had. Or the mobo is old or limited (oem). There are Lga 775 systems running 10 series.

https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=280097.0

1050Ti should work i believe.

manjulal · Jul 27, 2018

Thank you so much for your answers. I was not getting time to check the exact PC specifications and I apologize for the delay in replying. So it looks like the answers still got me confused. Maybe if I provide my full PC specifications, then you guys might be able to figure it out...So here goes:

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 650 @ 3.20GHz, 3193 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
Motherboard: Intel DH55TC
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 3.80 GB
Available Physical Memory 704 MB
Total Virtual Memory 5.18 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.58 GB
Page File Space 1.38 GB

SSD/HDD: Three HDD's in total. Promary boot drive is 1 120 GB SSD. Got a 2TB Hitachi SATA HDD and 1TB WD HDD as well.
GPU: Intel(R) Integrated HD Graphics. (Please check Intel DH55TC specifications at )
PSU: 400W SMPS
Chassis: Mini ATX
OS: Windows 10 Home 64 BIT

boju · Jul 27, 2018

Intel DH55TC motherboard will have no problems running a 1050Ti.

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