GPU MOBO compatibility

[McNash]

Hello friends, I wonder if you could help me here, I am interested in buying an EVGA GFORCE GTX650TI 2GB DDR5 for my PC, however, my MOBO is an old Gigabyte GA-MA785GM-US2H, I wonder if I would have any compatibility problems, as I checked in the PC-Specs site (not sure if I am allowed to paste the link) and the card didnt appear in the compatibility list of the MOBO, not sure if it's just that they didnt add the entry, as I see in the list some more advanced GPUs being compatible.

Thanks for any advice you could give me.

 

[Someone Somewhere]

Don't worry about compatibility lists; they're really just whatever the manufacturer had at the time.

You're fine. It's got a PCIe2.0 x16 slot, so will work fine. PCIe is backwards compatible.

A bigger question is the PSU. What output and model is it?

 

[McNash]

Don't worry about compatibility lists; they're really just whatever the manufacturer had at the time.

You're fine. It's got a PCIe2.0 x16 slot, so will work fine. PCIe is backwards compatible.

A bigger question is the PSU. What output and model is it?

Thanks, I have a PS-700 PSU, by the way my current card is a GTS 250, if I remember well I was originally planning to buy a GTX, unfortunately my previous PSU wouldnt handle it, so I had to split the budget an ended with the 250 and my current power supply, if I am reading well Geforce site the power consumption of both cards are quite similar.

 

[Someone Somewhere]

Never heard of a PS-700. What brand?

 

[photonboy]

For power, mainly just ensure your PSU has the proper 6/8-pin connectors for the card.

You'll also need 64-bit Windows or you'll have too little System Ram left over with a 2GB card. If you only have 32-bit Windows get a 1GB card instead. (Windows 32-bit addresses up to 4GB which INCLUDES the video and system memory. The MORE video memory added, the LESS of the system RAM it can use.)

 

[McNash]

PS-700 Atomic Juice, so far it has never given me overheating problems.

Yes, I got the 6/8-pin connectors and I am running on 64bits, I will also add 4 gigas of RAM as part of this current update, saddly it's only DDR2 but that's what my current MOBO supports.

 

[Someone Somewhere]

I'd strongly recommend replacing the PSU. No-name brands tend to be overrated piles of junk with no safety features and caps that will die soon. They can wipe out the rest of your system.