[SOLVED] Is my GPU compatible with the MSI MAG B365M Mortar

[Ghokos]

Hi,

I have a Palit GeForce GTX 1060 3GB and I am considering getting an MSI MAG B365M motherboard. Will the mobo be compatible?

Just noting that motherboard availability is terrible atm, I have very few choices to pick from.

Thanks!

 

[Eximo]

Yes, any PCIe motherboard will allow the installation of PCIe cards.

 

[Ghokos]

Thanks for your quick response.

While I was expecting this to be the case too, most sites I've researched show that this specific motherboard is only compatible with the 6GB version of the GPU, which I found to be very weird.

 

[Eximo]

Most sites? I can't even begin to fathom the logic behind that.

B365 is just an LGA 1151 socket motherboard. Any PCIe 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 card will fit in the x16 slot. Might be a few exceptions for very early PCIe 1.0 graphics cards, but they are also way outside of driver support. It will also have no issues with late model cards that don't support traditional BIOS but require UEFI. There is some truth to the opposite of putting brand new cards in older boards, but that is a software issue not hardware.

 

[Ghokos]

Clarifying that 'most sites' refers to msi compatibility page for the specific mobo, pcpartpicker compatibility tool and some other random ones.

Fair enough though, thanks for your time!

 

[Eximo]

MSI's list is merely what they tested, not what will necessarily work. There are hundreds (thousands) of relevant GPUs they didn't test.

You might notice that with the exception of Nvidia and AMD, the only vendor they tested was themselves. They had a 6GB card on hand that is all.

 

[Ghokos]

That makes a lot of sense.