[SOLVED] GTS 450 in a MSI Neo4 Platinum SLI s939

[millsdh]

Looking to upgrade my HTPC with a better video card. My motherboard is a MSI Neo4 Platinum SLI so it's got a PCI-E 1.0a slot for the gpu.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130487

I just tried an AMD 5750 but found that the 5xxx series video cards don't play nice with older nForce4 motherboards (http://forums.amd.com/game/messageview.cfm?catid=260&threadid=120655&STARTPAGE=1&FTVAR_FORUMVIEWTMP=Linear ).

Does anyone know if the GTS 450 works in older 939 / nForce4 motherboards?

Thanks!

 

[iam2thecrowe]

your wasting your money putting that vid card in there. whatever socket 939 cpu you have will be bottlenecking the crap out of it. no point in getting more than a gt240.

 

[millsdh]

Just so others know, a 450 GTS installed in a k8n neo4 s939, functions properly. no problems what so ever. just be warned, 5xxx series amd video cards do NOT play nice with older nforce4 motherboards.

 

[millsdh]

your wasting your money putting that vid card in there. whatever socket 939 cpu you have will be bottlenecking the crap out of it. no point in getting more than a gt240.

unless you are using it for CUDA. Next time try to answer the question not just post your opinion.

 

[iam2thecrowe]

well you did try an ati card, which does not even support CUDA so i kind of ruled that out. So what are you using it for? I suggested a gt240 because there should be less bottleneck and it would be compatible.

 

[millsdh]

using it in a htpc that does encoding. a fast gpu allows me to do gpu accelerated encoding. turns out that the cause of all the problems is a hardware conflict with amd 5xxx series gpu's and the older nforce4 north/south bridges.