Which nvidia GTX 1060 will run with legacy BIOS?

[pepan321]

Good day,

I have this MB:
http://www.gigabyte.cz/products/page/mb/ga-z68ap-d3rev_20#support-dl

I would like to buy new GPU like gtx 1060. But I have only last version of legacy BIOS - "FD".
I have read that many od new GPU need UEFI BIOS. Which brand of gtx 1060 will run with legacy BIOS?

Thank you very much.

Sorry for my bad English, I am not native speaker.

Yours sincerelly

Josef

 

[clutchc]

You should be fine with that board and any PCIe x16 gfx card you want to use. PCI Express is a backward compatible interface. 3.0 cards work fine on 2.0 boards.
And UEFI BIOS cards will work on legacy BIOS boards from that era as well. I recently had my Evga GTX 1060 installed in my old AM2+ motherboard for some benchmark testing. That board is a heck of a lot older than yours.

 

[norcalsc]

mine does

 

[DSzymborski]

Newer cards tend to do better with old boards when they're standard retail motherboards rather than OEM versions.

 

[pepan321]

Dear friends, thank you very much for your help! Yesterday I try to update BIOS to beta UEFI (last BIOS for my MBú and everything seems to be ok. Last question: is gtx 6GB much better then 3GB version? I have only full hd monitor and i5 2500k.

 

[clutchc]

Dear friends, thank you very much for your help! Yesterday I try to update BIOS to beta UEFI (last BIOS for my MBú and everything seems to be ok. Last question: is gtx 6GB much better then 3GB version? I have only full hd monitor and i5 2500k.

The 3GB model is slightly slower than the 6GB version mainly due to fewer shaders and processing cores. Not to mention half the VRAM which can impact depth of settings.

That being said, there's not a big problem with most games at 1080p/60hz gaming using the 3GB model. I have/had both and the 3GB model never hindered me.