Is My Motherboard Compatible With My Graphics Card?

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Motherboard: IPISB-CU (Carmel2)
Graphics Card: MSI Geoforce GTX 1050 TI 4GB OC

Other Components:
CPU: Intel Core i3 2120 3.3Ghz
RAM: 6GB
PSU: 300W
Storage: 3 TB
 
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Sandy Bridge platform, nope, the platform lacks the necessary power and the HP prebuilt unit will be limited to an incompatible BIOS environment. you would need to get something more concurrent like a Haswell platform if you'd like to drop in a GPU above the GTX600 series.

If you want to work with what you have, you're yet going to have to change the PSU with more wattage+of a better quality and be able to drop in a GTX650.
 
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Thanks so much for your quick reply! So your saying in no sense or way would I be able to put anything above the 600 GTX series in my PC the way it is now? Also the only way I could jump over to the 600 series is if I buy at least a 500W PSU? Like even if I get a new motherboard or something else I wouldn't be able to use the 1050 TI under any circumstances?

 
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Sandy Bridge platform, nope, the platform lacks the necessary power and the HP prebuilt unit will be limited to an incompatible BIOS environment. you would need to get something more concurrent like a Haswell platform if you'd like to drop in a GPU above the GTX600 series.

If you want to work with what you have, you're yet going to have to change the PSU with more wattage+of a better quality and be able to drop in a GTX650
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Hi, so if I were to upgrade my PC to these 2 products, would it then be able to run the 1050 TI?
Motherboard:https://pcpartpicker.com/product/s9Gj4D/msi-motherboard...
PSU:http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX47094

With upgrades is there any chance of me getting this PC to work with the 1050 TI?
 
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If you're going to buy a motherboard(like that) as an upgrade to your existing system, you're also going to have to buy a processor, DDR4 ram and a new PSU, notwithstanding the need for an OS, which in essence is equal to you buying/building a brand new computer/system. Which is what I was saying.

If the PSU is as old as the system itself, then due to capacitor degradation the unit will not be outputting anywhere remotely close to the 300W marker. In fact prebuilt system's come with low quality units to begin with and the sticker is just a sticker so it's also probable that the unit itself didn't output 300W out of the box.

Might I ask how old you might be?
 
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Nope, unless you have a hand in making BIOS for the system you're on to fool the GPU to think it's a compatible UEFI BIOS environment, which I doubt will happen. You might want to also know that prebuilts made by HP and the likes purposely have safeguards like limited functionality BIOSes to prevent the end user from tinkering with the unit in order to safeguard the system and the end user and in a way the company as well.

It's one of these reasons why prebuilt system tinkering are frowned upon as the end user ends up paying more than necessary at the end of the day.

The limitation again is your platform, if it were of Haswell and not Sandy Bridge/Ivy Bridge then we'd be making progress with a good quality PSU and a GTX1050Ti. It's your investment though and how you want to proceed is up to you. Logically you'd need something that is at least 2015 to be able to drop in a GTX700+series GPU into a system.
 
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Alright then, so if I were to upgrade this prebuilt PC at the end of the day, what parts would I have to get at minimum to get this thing to work with the 1050 TI? Sorry if I'm making you repeat yourself but I'm just asking for a clear cut list of parts I would need to make it compatible
 
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If I were you, I'd just build a new system and leave the prebuilt alone. At the end you'll notice that all your resources spent on the prebuilt is just negative return on investments. One other thing to stay away from is trying to get things done at bare minimum. More often then not you'll just end up equal to a prebuilt system's specs when trying to stick with bare minimums. Flexibility is what you should look for when building a system.

All this talk and you haven't once mentioned what display/resolution you're on and the sort of games you're looking to play. Ofc this is all an assumption since the GTX1050Ti is a gaming card and not a workstation card.
 
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Question from Marshy22 : "HP Pavilion p7-1252 - Geoforce GTX 1050 TI"





If you plug in your graphics card it will work, but it would be better to upgrade the processor.
 
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