GT1030 Compatible with G41mCombo?

[moh.hany6]

I've been wondering to get a GT 1030 GDDR5 Low Profile 2GB Edition. But i want that is my motherboard compatible with it. It is Gigabyte G41m Combo. Thanks

 

[herrwizo]

It is compatible. All you need is a PCI-e x16 slot, and this board has it. The card has very low power demands - even the crappiest PSUs can power it, and low profile means that you will be able to fit it even in smaller cases. So you are good to go.

 

[King_V]

I'm not sure a board that old has UEFI - and, if I'm not mistaken, newer Nvidia cards will have a problem with that.

 

[boju]

There are no gpus uefi only. All uefi gpus have legacy bios. The only problem is uefi boot with a non uefi gpu. Those who say legacy motherboards can't run uefi ready gpus have it backwards.

 

[King_V]

Well, I had an older machine (newer than the OP's machine) that was legacy BIOS. A Dell XPS 8300.

The R9 285 I purchased wouldn't work on it. Different brands of the R9 285 had a physical switch on the video card to work with PCs with legacy-only BIOS, and other XPS 8300 users had success with those. The R9 285 I had didn't have such a switch.

That's just my one example, but I've seen other mentions here about that as being a potential problem. My own experience, of course, is just limited to that one incident.

 

[herrwizo]

That problem is for some reason most common in branded prebuilt machines. Vely limited BIOS functionality. Should not be an issue at all with g41 mobo.

 

[boju]

Pre-builts are funny. Would be good to know exactly what is missing from the bios. Not all oems behave the same though.

The switch on the r9 285's that had it switched it to uefi. Otherwise legacy by default.

Versions without have auto detect. Somehow incorrect information is passed from oem motherboards, and in these circumstances the gpu thinks it should be in uefi mode.

Once in Windows, the driver will take over. But impossible to install a driver with a blank screen. Oems with igpus came in handy to install drivers. Boot sequence would be blank until Windows and drivers are loaded after login.

 

[King_V]

In the case of my system, it wouldn't boot at all, just power up, blank screen, no go on anything - so even if I'd used the IGPU temporarily to install drivers, I'd've been stuck.

It worked on my later XPS 8700, but, of course, that machine has UEFI and legacy support.

 

[boju]

Can't say you would've been stuck using igpu temporarily installing drivers for the AMD because you never did it that way.

 

[King_V]

The machine wouldn't post with the card installed, must less boot to the OS. The hard drive activity light would've been on, and the power switch LED was orange (which happens when in sleep mode or if there's an error) rather than white (normal operation).

Even if I went IGPU and installed the drivers, once the card was installed, the machine would simply not start up at all.

 

[King_V]

Having done more digging in some spare time regarding the old XPS 8300, it seems that newer Nvidia cards are reported to work on it, but, a number of AMD R9 cards would not.

So, it appears my concerns are a bit more specific to the "older PC plus AMD card" scenario.