Dear Read,
This is my system:
Core i7 970 (planning on overclocking this one to 4 GHz)
MSI X58 pro-e (newest bios)
12 Gigs of ram
300 WD velociraptor (planning on upgrading to SSD with windows 10)
GTX 480
I want to upgrade my graphics card to something newer, maybe a GTX 960 or 970.
But these cards use a uefi bios and I am wondering if my system would actually boot after upgrading to one of those cards. In other words are uefi graphics cards compatible with legacy bios motherboards?
I did some googling but most x58 motherboards and the compatibility with these newer graphics cards. Most of the ones that are compatible had bios support up until 2013 and where manufactured by EVGA. The latest bios update MSI released for my motherboard was in 2011.
Does anyone have any experience with this?
Thanks in advance.
This is my system:
Core i7 970 (planning on overclocking this one to 4 GHz)
MSI X58 pro-e (newest bios)
12 Gigs of ram
300 WD velociraptor (planning on upgrading to SSD with windows 10)
GTX 480
I want to upgrade my graphics card to something newer, maybe a GTX 960 or 970.
But these cards use a uefi bios and I am wondering if my system would actually boot after upgrading to one of those cards. In other words are uefi graphics cards compatible with legacy bios motherboards?
I did some googling but most x58 motherboards and the compatibility with these newer graphics cards. Most of the ones that are compatible had bios support up until 2013 and where manufactured by EVGA. The latest bios update MSI released for my motherboard was in 2011.
Does anyone have any experience with this?
Thanks in advance.