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

[Gion1]

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

 

[Imperat0r]

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 ?

 

[--SID--]

If the RX 550 works, a 480 should work too!

What's the brand and model of your PSU?

 

[Gion1]

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"

 

[Gion1]

If the RX 550 works, a 480 should work too!

What's the brand and model of your PSU?

My PCU is a Floston FL550-12, 550W

 

[bignastyid]

My PCU is a Floston FL550-12, 550W

Yeah, that garbage tier 336w PSU should not be used. Even with the current setup it's a bad day waiting to happen.

 

[js2]

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.

 

[Imperat0r]

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

 

[Gion1]

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

On the other hand you said:



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

I see, so the PSU is not good, correct me if I'm wrong and you meant something else.

Also the Vram was actually 4GB, sorry for the missinformation if it caused any confusion.

Here is the link from where I plan to buy the GPU: https://www.emag.ro/placa-video-sap...-4gb-gddr5-256-bit-11260-02-20g/pd/DC5KV2BBM/

But from what I've heard right now I think right now a PSU upgrade would be better..Also if you can give me some recomandations for which producers I should go when buying a PSU that would be helpful.

 

[Imperat0r]

Well, first of all i see that you are from Romania, like me.
I noticed that you put a link from Emag.
Second - i can recommend you only what i tested.
Since you buy this PSU now, i suggest to buy a good one, cause it will be used for any upgrades later.
So, investing your money in a good PSU is the best bet right now.
In my case i use Seasonic as the producer.
I have many models from them but i can confirm the quality of them.
If you can , buy a PSU at least with 750W - a gold one.
You will thank me later.

As for Sapphire, 4GB will be enough for 1080p games.

Of course, when you load newer games you will encounter 2 bottlenecks :
1 - CPU
2nd - GPU

So your computer will be ok as long as you want to stay at that resolution.

PS : may i ask what is the price of that Sapphire RX 470 4GB ?
And what is your budget for the videocard ?