Trying to find a possible upgrade for son's computer which is quite old spec. We're not currently able to upgrade the mobo and up to now he's been on a GeForce GTX1050Ti and Intel i3-5xxx.
Today we've upgraded to a Intel i7-4790 (max supported by the mobo) and bumped up the power supply at add an 8pin power lead for a higher spec video card, but the PowerColor RX6600 8GB 2F Fighter is refusing to boot. It works fine if we swap back to the old GTX1050Ti.
In speccing this up, I was aware we would have potential bottlenecks, and that we were running a PCIe4.0 card in a PCIe2.0 slot but understood that this was doable, with limitations. The card was unboxed and has probably been used for coin mining so there is a chance the card is faulty.
Am I expecting too much in thinking this would be compatible? Or am I right that this should work and the card may be at fault? And I appreciate I'm wringing the neck of some old kit here.
https://www.powercolor.com/product?id=1623918331#spe
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Thanks.
Today we've upgraded to a Intel i7-4790 (max supported by the mobo) and bumped up the power supply at add an 8pin power lead for a higher spec video card, but the PowerColor RX6600 8GB 2F Fighter is refusing to boot. It works fine if we swap back to the old GTX1050Ti.
In speccing this up, I was aware we would have potential bottlenecks, and that we were running a PCIe4.0 card in a PCIe2.0 slot but understood that this was doable, with limitations. The card was unboxed and has probably been used for coin mining so there is a chance the card is faulty.
Am I expecting too much in thinking this would be compatible? Or am I right that this should work and the card may be at fault? And I appreciate I'm wringing the neck of some old kit here.
https://www.powercolor.com/product?id=1623918331#spe
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Thanks.