PEGATRON Motherboard; Graphics Card Compatibility?

[MountainHike]

Hey everyone,

My house recently experienced a power cut, the TV blew up and blew my Graphics Card in my computer.

The motherboard is "PEGATRON CORPORATION 2AB5 (CPU 1)"
The Graphics Card is a "Nvidia GeForce GTX 550Ti" - the downside to finding a replacement for this exact same one is that it's around £170... so my question is:

Is it possible to use a different GeForce GTX 550Ti Graphics card, and will it be compatible with this particular motherboard?

Thanks for your time.

 

[pit_1209]

Of Course, as long as it has a pci-e port, which it has, you can buy any card, give us a budget if you need help.

 

[MountainHike]

Of Course, as long as it has a pci-e port, which it has, you can buy any card, give us a budget if you need help.

Thanks. Ideally, I'd like the budget to be £100 or lower, if that's possible. I found a few which are also 1GB, but I wasn't sure of the compatibility.

 

[pit_1209]

Of Course, as long as it has a pci-e port, which it has, you can buy any card, give us a budget if you need help.

Thanks. Ideally, I'd like the budget to be £100 or lower, if that's possible. I found a few which are also 1GB, but I wasn't sure of the compatibility.

This is the best for that amount, is in fact much better than the gtx 550ti
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sapphire-11200-16-20G-HD7850-GDDR5-Graphics/dp/B008RJZ5Z6/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1388427271&sr=8-2&keywords=hd+7850+1gb

or
http://www.amazon.co.uk/DirectCU-Graphics-CrossFireX-Technology-Eyefinity/dp/B007RS49EG/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1388427318&sr=8-2&keywords=hd+7770+1gb

 

[MountainHike]

Of Course, as long as it has a pci-e port, which it has, you can buy any card, give us a budget if you need help.

Thanks. Ideally, I'd like the budget to be £100 or lower, if that's possible. I found a few which are also 1GB, but I wasn't sure of the compatibility.

This is the best for that amount, is in fact much better than the gtx 550ti
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sapphire-11200-16-20G-HD7850-GDDR5-Graphics/dp/B008RJZ5Z6/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1388427271&sr=8-2&keywords=hd+7850+1gb

or
http://www.amazon.co.uk/DirectCU-Graphics-CrossFireX-Technology-Eyefinity/dp/B007RS49EG/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1388427318&sr=8-2&keywords=hd+7770+1gb

by the way guys...

just to be more precise my PC is:
HP Pavilion HPE h8-1075uk - Core i7 2600 3.4 GHz (HP Pavilion HPE h8-1075uk - Core i7 2600 3.4 GHz)

Link of specs


do you think the graphics cards you have mentioned above will also be compatible with this model?

 

[pit_1209]

Yes it will, the hd 7850 has almost the same power consumption that your old card so the psu will handle it fine, that worries me is the fact that your psu didn´t have the surge protection necessary and because of that your card got fried that can happen again, consider changing that psu if possible also.

 

[GhislainG]

Yes it will, the hd 7850 has almost the same power consumption that your old card so the psu will handle it fine, that worries me is the fact that your psu didn´t have the surge protection necessary and because of that your card got fried that can happen again, consider changing that psu if possible also.

The PSU couldn't protect the GPU if the TV caused the issue when it failed.

 

[MountainHike]

Yes it will, the hd 7850 has almost the same power consumption that your old card so the psu will handle it fine, that worries me is the fact that your psu didn´t have the surge protection necessary and because of that your card got fried that can happen again, consider changing that psu if possible also.

The PSU couldn't protect the GPU if the TV caused the issue when it failed.

Yeah I have already bought a Power Surge I have learned my lesson.

But I have some questions:

- You both recommended those 2 amazing graphics cards but both of them have AMD technology however my PC is a pentium isn't that going to create some incompatibility issues?

- The Asus one you recommended is PCI Express 3.0 however the previous one was PCI Express 2.0. Will the motherboard accept that?

Thanks a lot for all your help guys!!

 

[pit_1209]

yeah I have already bought a Power Surge I have learned my lesson lol.

but I have some questions:

- you guys recommended me those 2 amazing graphics cards but both of them have AMD technology however my PC is a pentium isn't that going to create some incompatibility issues?

- the Asus one you recommended me is PCI Express 3.0 however the previous one was PCI Express 2.0. Will the motherboard accept that?

thanks a lot for all your help guys!!

It won´t be any compatibility issues, any card could go with any processor, and yes pci-e 3.0 is backward compatible so that´s not a problem also.

 

[MountainHike]

Okay, thanks for your help, I really appreciate it!

 

[sora]

Hey everyone,

My house recently experienced a power cut, the TV blew up and blew my Graphics Card in my computer.

The motherboard is "PEGATRON CORPORATION 2AB5 (CPU 1)"
The Graphics Card is a "Nvidia GeForce GTX 550Ti" - the downside to finding a replacement for this exact same one is that it's around £170... so my question is:

Is it possible to use a different GeForce GTX 550Ti Graphics card, and will it be compatible with this particular motherboard?

Thanks for your time.

Yes, I have never heard of that motherboard before.. 😵