Fermi compatible gpu?

[Itsallgooman]

So, i have an older motherboard that apparently runs on Fermi architecture and not Kepler. Didn't realize this when i ordered a evga geforce 760. Now i'm left looking for an older kind of card and the prices are through the roof for a worse crad than the 760. Please help?

 

[NiCoM]

So what you mean is that your old gpu is a fermi? some older Nvidia cards where named Fermi, Im pretty sure motherboards aren't called fermi. If it runs a Fermi gpu (etc GTX4xx), then it will also run a GTX760 with the right psu.

 

[Itsallgooman]

I am basically being told that the motherboard is not compatible with the new gtx 760 gpu. The old card that came with the system is amd radeon 6750. I was told it's a problem with fermi vs kepler acrchitecture. I've updated my bios and when i have the new card in there it just gets stuck at splash screen and beeps every 10 seconds or so. I keep thinking i just have to update something or remove old drivers, but i am reticent to do so and not have the old card work either.

 

[Itsallgooman]

OK, so i have spoken with evga. I am lucky in that my friend and i bought the same card so they suggested trying his card in my machine in order to make sure my card is not broken. If that doesn't change anything, he says the card is not compatible with the motherboard. It's an older motherboard in a pre-built HP system and the bios updates they have for it don't address graphics issues. I will report back once i find out about this because i see a lot of people having this same problem thru various threads.

Just a lil extra info: the system is a hp h8-1020, intel i7 2600s dual core @ 2.80Ghz, windows 7 64 bit
-motherboard is called "carmel" by manufacturer pegatron

I would want to help other people avoid this problem so i will report back

 

[cst1992]

Many times it does happen that the BIOS needs to be updated for a new card to work.
I got lucky though. My 2008 system works fine with my new GTX650 card. Yours must be a 2011, as it's sandy bridge.

It really isn't worth it to buy Fermi at this stage. The fastest one you'll find is the GTX 580, which hogs a lot of power, is only about as fast as a GTX 650 Ti BOOST(vastly slower than a 760), and noisier.
I'd rather you bought a new LGA1155 board.(You could find a good one for less than $100, should work with your processor and graphics card).
Also, your 2600S is a quad core 2.8GHz CPU, not a dual-core.
http://ark.intel.com/products/52215/Intel-Core-i7-2600S-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-3_80-GHz

 

[Itsallgooman]

I wish I had seen this post like a half hour ago...I've been scratching my head about this for the last 2 days. I actually just purchased a geforce gtx 580 with 3GB DDR5, the best one I could find for the money since it is out of market. I am not entirely confident I could change out a motherboard or else I would be trying to cancel my order now lol...good to know it is a quad core jeez, this thing should be able to handle a few more years of upgrades. I could maybe cancel those orders and switch to the motherboard route if you can kinda guide me through it???

 

[cst1992]

The LGA1155 socket came with the Sandy Bridge CPU's(commonly known as 2nd Generation Core i series).
The CPUs made for this socket are the 2nd and 3rd generation(sandy and ivy bridge) i series CPUs.
You could get a recent LGA1155 motherboard such as the Gigabyte GA-H77M-D3H, it'll work fine with your CPU and graphics card.
BTW make sure you have atmost 1333MHz RAM, more than that isn't supported by your CPU.(if you're buying more that is).

 

[cst1992]

The newest i series(4th Generation) are codenamed Haswell and they use the LGA1150 socket.


You can easily identify a CPU by its number: 3 digits will be first generation(such as Core i3-540)
All others are indicated by their first digit(e.g. i3-2120, i5-2400, and your i7-2600S are 2nd generation, i5-3450 and i7-3770 are third, and i5-4670k, i7 4770 are fourth generation).
Exception are the extreme series. The i7 3960x is 2nd generation(sandy bridge) and i7 4960x is 3rd generation(ivy bridge).

 

[Itsallgooman]

cst1992 I really must thank you for taking an interest in me. I would love to keep the gtx 760 and do all of this, but i just don't think i can handle replacing a motherboard. Changing out a power supply is easy and so is a video card...i may be chicken, but i think the motherboard would be beyond me. I had already ordered a replacement video card and i really just want it to hold me over for the next year or 2 at most til i can upgrade the whole system. Based on what i've seen on this site, there would be a lot of help when that time comes. I am actually highly considering building it myself and ordering the components. Right now i think it would be a pain for me to cancel the orders i have in already, and in the future i will be able to do more full research. Thank you again to all who reached out through this thread

 

[cst1992]

So what will you do with the 760?

 

[FunSurfer]

cst1992 I really must thank you for taking an interest in me. I would love to keep the gtx 760 and do all of this, but i just don't think i can handle replacing a motherboard. Changing out a power supply is easy and so is a video card...i may be chicken, but i think the motherboard would be beyond me. I had already ordered a replacement video card and i really just want it to hold me over for the next year or 2 at most til i can upgrade the whole system. Based on what i've seen on this site, there would be a lot of help when that time comes. I am actually highly considering building it myself and ordering the components. Right now i think it would be a pain for me to cancel the orders i have in already, and in the future i will be able to do more full research. Thank you again to all who reached out through this thread

You mentioned power supply, just to let you know, the GTX 760 requires a 500W PSU with 30A on the 12V rails and the GTX 580 requires a 600W PSU with 40A on the 12V rails, so if you still have that #@%* 300W PSU that usualy comes with the HP PC, you should replace it.

 

[Itsallgooman]

I have to return it to amazon...i cant use it and can definitely use the 250 dollars lol