Is My Old Motherboard Compatible With GTX 1060 ?

[rimlin27]

Hello.

I have Gigabyte GA-H61M-DS2 REV 1.2 motherboard, just wondering whether it would be compatible with Nvidia GTX 1060 (ZOTAC GeForce® GTX 1060 3GB AMP Edition to be exact) ?


Motherboard‘s Bios mode is Legacy however Hybrid EFI Technology is available.
Latest available Bios update date: 2012/03/27

I think that Bios related incompatibility is possible.

The latest Bios update looks very out of date and i‘m not sure if Hybrid EFI Technology would work with GPU as standard UEFI in case Legacy Bios turns out incompatible.

Board links

https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-H61M-DS2-rev-12#ov

https://www.cnet.com/products/gigabyte-ga-h61m-ds2-rev-1-2-motherboard-micro-atx-lga1155-socket-h61-series/specs/

GPU

https://www.zotac.com/us/product/graphics_card/zotac-geforce-gtx-1060-3gb-amp-edition#spec


Thank You.

 

[nitinvaid20]

Yes it will work but make sure if you have any update of bios do that before inserting the NEW GPU

 

[junii421]

All mobos are compatible with all GPUs as long as the CPU won't bottleneck it.

 

[TJ Hooker]

All mobos are compatible with all GPUs as long as the CPU won't bottleneck it.

No, some modern cards (i.e. all Geforce 10-series I believe) require UEFI mobos, while older mobos are legacy BIOS.

@rimlin27 where do you see that your mobo supports hybrid EFI? I did a quick search, didn't see anything other than legacy BIOS mentioned.

 

[nitinvaid20]

All mobos are compatible with all GPUs as long as the CPU won't bottleneck it.

No, some modern cards (i.e. all Geforce 10-series I believe) require UEFI mobos, while older mobos are legacy BIOS.

@rimlin27 where do you see that your mobo supports hybrid EFI? I did a quick search, didn't see anything other than legacy BIOS mentioned.

Yes i agree with you but i have seen GTX 10xx series card works in some motherboard without UEFi from 3rd gen of CPU even the 2nd one even i am not sure why

 

[rimlin27]

All mobos are compatible with all GPUs as long as the CPU won't bottleneck it.

No, some modern cards (i.e. all Geforce 10-series I believe) require UEFI mobos, while older mobos are legacy BIOS.

@rimlin27 where do you see that your mobo supports hybrid EFI? I did a quick search, didn't see anything other than legacy BIOS mentioned.

"Find" browser option might help

 

[rimlin27]

Yes it will work but make sure if you have any update of bios do that before inserting the NEW GPU

So Gigabyte Hybrid EFI Technology counts as standard UEFI ?

 

[TJ Hooker]

"Find" browser option might help

Ah, my bad. I usually ignore the features/overview page and go straight to the specs tab, as the former is usually just a lot of marketing gibberish.

Anyway, read this: http://techreport.com/news/20941/is-it-efi-or-not-gigabyte-hybrid-efi-bios-explained
Apparently they added a EFI bootloader to a regular legacy BIOS that allows support for larger storage drives. They make no mention of GPUs. Unfortunately I don't know enough about a PC boot sequence to know at what point the GPU vBIOS is loaded.

Edit: I believe that most graphics cards support both UEFI and legacy BIOS, but thought I had heard that some newer ones (i.e. Geforce 10) were UEFI only, and would not work on legacy BIOS mobos. After searching around a bit, I can't seem to find a solid confirmation of this, but instead just a number of anecdotes. So I'm not 100% sure this is true.