Will it work?

[Rajzan]

So this is my PC:
Board - Intel DG31PR
RAM - DDR2 4B Dual
Procesor - Intel 2 Quad Q6600
Power Supply - Corsair VS550W

And i want to buy a Sapphire Radeon RX 460 2GB GDDR5 (128 Bit) will it work with it?
I know my pc is old and I should buy new one but for now just anwser the QUESTION

BTW why there are so many diffrent types of the same card? (Sapphire,Gigabyte,Asus,MSI)

 

[BFG-9000]

Should work fine.

I would choose a RX460 with all x16 lanes attached though (many of them have only half the pins on the connector so are electrically x8) since your board's PCIe 1.1 is only 1/4 as fast as PCIe 3.0, so an x8 board would only see 2GB/s, same as AGP 8x or PCIe 3.0 x2.

PCIe 1.1 x16 is as fast as PCIe 2.0 x8 or PCIe 3.0 x4

 

[Rajzan]

Ok so which one would it be? Sapphire,Gigabyte,Asus,MSI ?

 

[BFG-9000]

Should be all about the same so shop on price. Powercolor, XFX, Visiontek make cards too.

You may have a preference for 1 or 2 fans. I think 75w is too hot for the XFX fanless model.

Most Sapphire and Gigabyte are only x8. I would personally go with a card with a 6-pin power connector to allow for some overclocking, because Intel boards tend to shut down if power draw goes out of spec, and because your power supply has the plug.

 

[Rajzan]

what do you recommend?

 

[FD2Raptor]

You should know that for system as old as yours, there's always a risk that the latest gen card would refuse to work with your BIOS and would require an UEFI-equipped MB instead. Buy locally or confirming the store return policy before commit to a purchase.