Will a Gt 1030 work with Legacy Bios?

[ralphadenz]

will a GT 1030 with the VGA output one work with Legacy Bios?

 

[boju]

All uefi GPUs have both uefi and legacy bios, there are no uefi only graphics cards. There are limits though, will depend how old your motherboard is.

 

[ralphadenz]

All uefi GPUs have both uefi and legacy bios, there are no uefi only graphics cards. There are limits though, will depend how old your motherboard is.

i think its 10 or 8 years old

 

[Alan Caldwell]

Any mobo that has a PCI-e x16 slot will support any graphics card irrespective of memory type. As for your mobo it has a PCI-e x16 slot, so it is supported. BIOS doesn't matter.

BTW, your PC specs?

 

[boju]

i think its 10 or 8 years old

Was hoping you'd include your motherboard.

If it's a system with Intel LGA 775 or AMD AM2 you'll be fine. Predecessor's of these generations with Pcie im not sure.

 

[ralphadenz]

Any mobo that has a PCI-e x16 slot will support any graphics card irrespective of memory type. As for your mobo it has a PCI-e x16 slot, so it is supported. BIOS doesn't matter.

BTW, your PC specs?

ehh its a low spec one
it has AMD athlon x2 5600+
8gb of ram ddr2

 

[ralphadenz]

i think its 10 or 8 years old

Was hoping you'd include your motherboard.

If it's a system with Intel LGA 775 or AMD AM2 you'll be fine. Predecessor's of these generations with Pcie im not sure.

yes i have AM2
its a emaxx emx-mcp61p-avl ver 3.0

 

[boju]

You'll be fine.

[video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0l_M52bfxA"][/video]

 

[ralphadenz]

You'll be fine.

[video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0l_M52bfxA"][/video]

i believe i can get more performance than this video
because my processor is 2.9ghz dual core

 

[boju]

Purpose of that vid was to show it'll run on older generations. Might get a little better performance, the 1030 isn't much of a gaming card. Though it only draws 35w from the Pcie slot. If you had an 300watt PSU i'd suggest looking at a GTX 1050 instead. But only if you knew your Pcie slot provides 75w power. I can't find any documentation or manual for your board so if a 1050 interests you and still have your motherboard manual it should say in there what wattage the Pcie slot is. Sometimes wattage is labelled near the pcie slot.

GTX 1050/1050Ti can also be slot powered with some overclocked models needing additional power. Power consumption of 1050 & 1050Ti https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1050-ti,4787-6.html

If you have less then 300watt PSU, stay with the 1030 as it only draws 35w. Just don't expect too much from it.

GPU hierarchy chart to see which category the 1030 is with similar cards in it's class of performance. Albeit older cards that do perform similar requires more power so the 1030 does well for being a 35w card. https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388.html

I would suggest second hand 750Ti slot powered version to even out a cpu bottleneck compared with the 1050 but there are a lot of fakes going around not worth going 750Ti.

Forgot to add, assuming your monitor is vga only since you mentioned 1030 with vga, Zotac is the only brand i know of that has vga on a 10 series card, the rest are all digital so if you were to consider a different card that had digital output only, an active converter hdmi - vga or dvi to vga can also work.