1050 Ti Compatability with Old Mobo

[ZoomHD]

So I have a prebuilt from Best Buy (8 years old) thats got a Pegatron 2AC2 mobo and was hoping to upgrade it with a 1050 Ti. I bought a Corsair CX430W and installed it today but am wondering if I need to get a heftier graphics card that needs a power connection so that my mobo doesn't explode. I'm looking at the EVGA SC and FTW ACX 3.0 versions (SSC ACX 3.0 seems to be out of stock everywhere and the FTW seems to need a pin connector??) I am also considering MSI's 4 GT OC or Gaming X. Basically I just want to get the most 1050 Ti I can.

 

[kookie3010]

so you are worried that a bigger watt psu going to hurt your motherboard?

 

[Kkody2]

If you are worried about the 1050ti using power from the motherboard only and if the motherboard is that old you probably should upgrade that too.
But if the GPU doesn't require any external power, it should all be run fine from the PCIEx16 port where you GPU is plugged in.

If the GPU has a 6pin plug, it is going to need a 6pin connector from the PSU to work properly

 

[ARICH5]

pegatron....thats not a uefi bios.

 

[ZoomHD]

so you are worried that a bigger watt psu going to hurt your motherboard?

Yes in a sense. I have decided I will only get a graphics card with a 6 pin connector i.e. strix/ftw/gaming x. But I assume the motherboard is going to hold back the 1050 ti performance wise a lot right?

 

[ZoomHD]

If you are worried about the 1050ti using power from the motherboard only and if the motherboard is that old you probably should upgrade that too.
But if the GPU doesn't require any external power, it should all be run fine from the PCIEx16 port where you GPU is plugged in.

If the GPU has a 6pin plug, it is going to need a 6pin connector from the PSU to work properly

thanks, perfectly answers my question though I now realize performance was more the question the entire time (bad wording)

 

[goldstone77]

http://www.pc-specs.com/mobo/Pegatron_Corporation/Pegatron_2AC2/2965

PCI-E 2.0 16x is equivalent to PCI-E 3.0 8x, and should work fine.

 

[Kkody2]

so you are worried that a bigger watt psu going to hurt your motherboard?

Yes in a sense. I have decided I will only get a graphics card with a 6 pin connector i.e. strix/ftw/gaming x. But I assume the motherboard is going to hold back the 1050 ti performance wise a lot right?

As long as the motherboard has a PCI express x16 slot it should be able to run the card fine. It would depend on your CPU which will probably bottleneck your 1050ti as the CPU in that old motherboard is probably not the greatest at all.
I honestly have never heard of the physical motherboard alone holding back a gpu.