Question I plan to upgrade my GPU, but I'm not sure my bios supports the upgrade

Jul 28, 2024
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I own a Foxconn 2ABF motherboard with legacy type bios. I want to upgrade from my current rx 550 to a rx 480, but I found a few people who had problems with legacy bios and this kind of GPU and from what I've read it's because it was made for UEFI type bios. Now since my motherboard seemingly doesn't support the graphics card I'm wondering on what I should do about it.

I don't really want to upgrade my motherboard or change the type of GPU I want to upgrade to.

Is there anything I can do besides changing my motherboard ?

Pc specs

OS: Windows 10
CPU: I5 3330
GPU: Rx 550
RAM: 16 GB ram 2x8 1600 MHz DDR3
Motherboard: Foxconn 2ABF
 
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Hello.
Both cards are too old.
The one you own right now has 2GB as i presume.
The question is : what producer, model and memory (4 or 8) you want to buy ?
The one I own right now has 4 GB of Vram, It's a "PowerColor AMD Radeon RX 550 Red Dragon 4GB
vram Gddr5" and the one I want to buy is a "Ref AMD Sapphire Radeon RX480 NITRO+ OC 8GB vram Gddr5"
 
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js2

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To be fair. Your best upgrade will be going to an i7 CPU instead of upgrading your GPU. Your board is a bit dated for newer cards and you will not see much performance.

You can OC your current card though. But your hardware is nearing its limit.
 
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Imperat0r

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We have a problem here:
- That was highlighted already by @bignastyid - and that would be your PSU.

On the other hand you said:

"Ref AMD Sapphire Radeon RX480 NITRO+ OC 8GB vram Gddr5"

If you intend to buy Polaris cards, you need to focus ONLY on known producers like :
Sapphire, XFX, ASrock, MSI or ASUS.
The order i put above was a result of 7 years of using those cards from those producers, that leads to that hierarchy.
So if you be so kind put as link to your card or some pictures here