Hello again.
I am currently looking to upgrade my graphics card on my rig.
The mobo is an "MSI 0A90", apparently, with a PCI-E slot and some other slots (of course, I'm going to go for a PCI-E card)
My PSU is good and should be able to cope (I'd check before hand to be sure anyway)
However, from previous experience I know that is not all there is to it - once, many years ago, I upgraded from a Riva TNT M64 (or TNT2) to a GeForce 4. I had the correct slot on my mobo (which was also upgraded at the time) but the card would never work.
After literally months of sending the card back and forth to the vendor complaining that "it (still) doesn't work" and contacting the tech support for my motherboard I was informed that the card was simply not compatible. Not for slot reasons, not for power reasons. Just plain "incompatible".
So my question is pretty much "what advice can you give me to influence my choice in card?" Is there a list or table of compatiblities, or should I just buy a card and assume that my previous experience was an isolated incident?
I am currently looking to upgrade my graphics card on my rig.
The mobo is an "MSI 0A90", apparently, with a PCI-E slot and some other slots (of course, I'm going to go for a PCI-E card)
My PSU is good and should be able to cope (I'd check before hand to be sure anyway)
However, from previous experience I know that is not all there is to it - once, many years ago, I upgraded from a Riva TNT M64 (or TNT2) to a GeForce 4. I had the correct slot on my mobo (which was also upgraded at the time) but the card would never work.
After literally months of sending the card back and forth to the vendor complaining that "it (still) doesn't work" and contacting the tech support for my motherboard I was informed that the card was simply not compatible. Not for slot reasons, not for power reasons. Just plain "incompatible".
So my question is pretty much "what advice can you give me to influence my choice in card?" Is there a list or table of compatiblities, or should I just buy a card and assume that my previous experience was an isolated incident?