<75W GPU that uses BIOS rather than UEFI for GTA IV?

[jonapom]

I want to play GTA IV but my GT 520 is not fast enough (my i3-2120 is good enough). I need something faster, about double/triple the speed would suffice, I think.

I want to upgrade my HP PC with a GPU that is BIOS compatible and is less than 75W (my 300W PSU does not provide extra power connectors). It has a H-CUPERTINO2-H61-uA TX motherboard that is not UEFI compatible according to HP. I learned it the hard way when I bought a MSI N730K-1GD5LP/OC which did not pass the HP boot screen so I had to send it back.

The budget is less than $75.

So anybody know of a GPU that would work?

 

[Gingerbread]

Only thing you could get is a gt 730 and get the 64bit GDDR5

 

[maxalge]

I want to play GTA IV but my GT 520 is not fast enough (my i3-2120 is good enough). I need something faster, about double/triple the speed would suffice, I think.

I want to upgrade my HP PC with a GPU that is BIOS compatible and is less than 75W (my 300W PSU does not provide extra power connectors). It has a H-CUPERTINO2-H61-uA TX motherboard that is not UEFI compatible according to HP. I learned it the hard way when I bought a MSI N730K-1GD5LP/OC which did not pass the HP boot screen so I had to send it back.

The budget is less than $75.

So anybody know of a GPU that would work?

all you actually had to do was go into the bios disable secure boot

and set it to legacy mode

 

[Ra_V_en]

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-r7-240-and-250,3717-10.html

I'd suggest to look over R7 250 or GT 740, both require ~60-65W of power, both perform quite similar and both will be quite better than GT 730 (~40W), but on the other hand will need more power.

https://pcpartpicker.com/parts/video-card/#xcx=0&sort=d8&page=1&X=0,8928&c=174,150&r=2048,1024

You have few options bellow 75$ price point. Don't get overexercised about VRAM. Those cards are so weak it will be hard to push so much quality of most of the games to pass the 1GB mark or usage anyways.
MSI N740-1GD5 is the cheapest option here as you can see, it should be fine too run GTA 5 on low to low-med settings @ 1080p with some decent FPS.

As above answer covered it was not the power issues, rather compatibility.

 

[jonapom]

Only thing you could get is a gt 730 and get the 64bit GDDR5

As stated in the opening post, I already bought a MSI GT 730 1GB GDDR5 (N730K-1GD5LP/OC) and it did not pass the HP boot screen because my motherboard supports only BIOS and not UEFI.

 

[jonapom]

all you actually had to do was go into the bios disable secure boot

and set it to legacy mode

My BIOS version does not have such option. I believe HP introduced that option in 2012 but my PC is from 2011.

 

[jonapom]

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-r7-240-and-250,3717-10.html

I'd suggest to look over R7 250 or GT 740, both require ~60-65W of power, both perform quite similar and both will be quite better than GT 730 (~40W), but on the other hand will need more power.

https://pcpartpicker.com/parts/video-card/#xcx=0&sort=d8&page=1&X=0,8928&c=174,150&r=2048,1024

You have few options bellow 75$ price point. Don't get overexercised about VRAM. Those cards are so weak it will be hard to push so much quality of most of the games to pass the 1GB mark or usage anyways.
MSI N740-1GD5 is the cheapest option here as you can see, it should be fine too run GTA 5 on low to low-med settings @ 1080p with some decent FPS.

As above answer covered it was not the power issues, rather compatibility.

How do you know that MSI N740-1GD5 is BIOS compatible rather than UEFI compatible?

 

[Ra_V_en]

It's partially covered here:
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2116039/uefi-designated-graphics-card-120.html

Before you do anything then you should check for bios update of that mobo, otherwise there still might be issues with any newer card.
In theory GPU's supporting UEFI should be backward compatible with legacy mode, but since you've already tried some MSI model then there is high chance my suggestion will lead to same issues.
Here is some more talk about HP issues with UEFI cards:
http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Desktop-Hardware-and-Upgrade-Questions/Having-issues-upgrading-my-video-card/td-p/4766162

 

[maxalge]

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-r7-240-and-250,3717-10.html

I'd suggest to look over R7 250 or GT 740, both require ~60-65W of power, both perform quite similar and both will be quite better than GT 730 (~40W), but on the other hand will need more power.

https://pcpartpicker.com/parts/video-card/#xcx=0&sort=d8&page=1&X=0,8928&c=174,150&r=2048,1024

You have few options bellow 75$ price point. Don't get overexercised about VRAM. Those cards are so weak it will be hard to push so much quality of most of the games to pass the 1GB mark or usage anyways.
MSI N740-1GD5 is the cheapest option here as you can see, it should be fine too run GTA 5 on low to low-med settings @ 1080p with some decent FPS.

As above answer covered it was not the power issues, rather compatibility.

How do you know that MSI N740-1GD5 is BIOS compatible rather than UEFI compatible?

you got it backwards


UEFI is also called "secure boot"



you are having issues BECAUSE you have secure boot enabled


the option to turn it off should be either in the "boot", or "security" tab in your bios

you could also get a UEFI compatible gtx 750 ti, that has a switch to enable secure boot compatability


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127784&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-PCPartPicker,%20LLC-_-na-_-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID=

 

[jonapom]

In case anyone owning the H-CUPERTINO2-H61-uA TX motherboard reads this post, I will provide a tentative solution since nobody else has provided any that will actually work.

AFAIK, none of the nvidia 700 series will work with that motherboard. Although it is possible that some very specific model(s) will work because they provide a physical switch on the PCB allowing you to switch between BIOS and UEFI firmware. I have not found much information. If anyone has found any please post the model numbers.

AFAIK, all the nvidia 600 series will work but I am not certain of this 100%.

Therefore, the only guaranteed solution will be to buy a nvidia 500 series.

 

[jonapom]

I bought a GT 620 and it worked flawlessly. Therefore, the 600 series is also guaranteed to work.