Question Should I get this VGA?

[LuKaWin10]

Should I get the MSI 970 GTX VGA as my main graphics card in this PC? Specs:

Motherboard: P35-DS3 rev 2.1 (with Xeon and SLIC 2.1 modded to it)

GPU: GT 730 (I want the GTX 970)

CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 (OC to 3.67 GHz)

RAM: G.SKILL F2-6400-CL5D 800 MHz DDR2, 5-5-5-15, 4 Gigabytes (other 4 will arrive soon)

PSU: MSI MAG A650BN, 650W PSU

Add-on Cards (PCI and PCI-E): TP-LINK TG3468 Ethernet Card, and one other PCI Ethernet card

Case: DELUX MG760 Case

 

[Lutfij]

Honestly, you might want to look into a GTX750Ti or a GTX1050Ti but your platform won't be able to leverage anything above them. You might even run into the issue of seeing a black screen since your motherboard lacks an UEFI BIOS while pretty much all GPU's have a UEFI VBIOS.

 

[stonecarver]

You will be surprised with the GTX 970. I keep GTX 970's around like tic tac's as there so user friendly with the older systems.

Your system was only 6 years old when the GTX 970 came out and your choices back than were the GTX 8800 , 9800's or the GTX 260, 280, or the 290 that all lack direct-x 12.

I don't remember if the GTX 650, 670, or the 680 has direct-x 12 ?

So that's why the GTX 970 is a go to card to keep the old PC .s simi going at least for what can be done on the older parts.

Up to 2015 games your good. Moving past than there are still many games the GTX 970 can play but your CPU will be your limiting factor, missing instructions from the CPU. AVX is one of them.
Nvidia also has drivers still for the GTX 970 for windows 10/11

What OS are you using?

 

[LuKaWin10]

You will be surprised with the GTX 970. I keep GTX 970's around like tic tac's as there so user friendly with the older systems.

Your system was only 6 years old when the GTX 970 came out and your choices back than were the GTX 8800 , 9800's or the GTX 260, 280, or the 290 that all lack direct-x 12.

I don't remember if the GTX 650, 670, or the 680 has direct-x 12 ?

So that's why the GTX 970 is a go to card to keep the old PC .s simi going at least for what can be done on the older parts.

Up to 2015 games your good. Moving past than there are still many games the GTX 970 can play but your CPU will be you limiting factor, missing instructions from the CPU. AVX is one of them.
Nvidia also has drivers still for the GTX 970 for windows 10/11

What OS are you using?

Windows 7, 8.1 and Vista. I use those OSs in a Triple boot system together. But will the GTX 970 be supported as I have Legacy CSM BIOS and I am not sure that it will support it! As Lutfij said I might run into issues!

 

[LuKaWin10]

Ohh, okay. I will try finding a video to see maybe just maybe it will be supported!

Honestly, you might want to look into a GTX750Ti or a GTX1050Ti but your platform won't be able to leverage anything above them. You might even run into the issue of seeing a black screen since your motherboard lacks an UEFI BIOS while pretty much all GPU's have a UEFI VBIOS.

 

[stonecarver]

I run all my old PC no UEFI bios. All old bios and the GTX 970 is great.

I know a different socket mine is a 1366 from 2009 running a GTX Titan Pascal on old bios. And we have GTX 970 in so many old systems from 2009-2016 all old bios.

1151 works
1155 works
1366 works

I'm tired but that's just a few off the top of my head the GTX 970 plays nice with.

 

[LuKaWin10]

I run all my old PC no UEFI bios. All old bios and the GTX 970 is great.

I know a different socket mine is a 1366 from 2009 running a GTX Titan Pascal on old bios. And we have GTX 970 in so many old systems from 2009-2016 all old bios.

1151 works
1155 works
1366 works

I'm tired but that's just a few off the top of my head the GTX 970 plays nice with.

So LGA775 is made to work well too, right? I even updated my BIOS to version F14 (newest)

 

[LuKaWin10]

Honestly, you might want to look into a GTX750Ti or a GTX1050Ti but your platform won't be able to leverage anything above them. You might even run into the issue of seeing a black screen since your motherboard lacks an UEFI BIOS while pretty much all GPU's have a UEFI VBIOS.

I think it could work! Check this video!

View: https://youtu.be/LJVXhwTv3RU?si=tufTysbYX7LP3X9v