New Graphics Card compatibility

[Kingy005]

Hi

I've been offered a new card from a friend. It's condition is fairly new and wanted to know if it was compatible with my PC. I think the power supply should be sufficient to run and the card seems to be compatible with my mobo despite it's age, it's just whether it can be a straight swap? I'm looking to add a new SSD too. Quite new to upgrading so this will be my first 'big' change.

New Card -

Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB
https://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-1050-ti/specifications

Current PC spec -

- Case: Xigmatek Midgard Midi Tower - Black
- Power Supply: Corsair CX 600W
- CPU: Intel Core i5 760 2.93GHz overclocked to 4.00GHz
- Motherboard: Gigabyte P55-USB3 Intel P55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 Motherboard
- Cooler: Xigmatek Dark Knight CPU Cooler
- RAM: Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit - REPLACED
(have replaced now with 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 Corsair vengeance 1600MHz)
- Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - REPLACED
(have since replaced with 1TB Seagate SATA Drive as the above broke when I moved to Windows 10)
- Graphics Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 460 OC 1024MB GDDR5
- Sound: Realtek 7.1 Channel Sound (On-Board)
- Optical Drive: LG DVD+/-RW SATA Drive

 

[Len Dananey]

Yes it will work fine and considerably better than a 460, not amazing but a good step up.

 

[pastymuncher]

If you get a black screen when you fire up for the first time with the new card you will need to take it out again and flash the motherboard to the latest bios which is F10g. If you download and run CPU-z it will tell you the current bios version you are running under the motherboard tab.

If you need to update the bios download the latest from here and extract it if it's a .zip file. Put it on a USB stick (only use a USB 2.0 port for this with your board) and boot into the bios. Please note that flashing the bios will reset everything to default so write down any changes you have made that you want to keep. Under the tools tab you will find Q-Flash. Fire it up and follow the instructions to the letter and point it at the USB stick that has the new bios on it, confirm you want to flash the bios and let it do it's thing. Do not interupt it or turn off the power. Once done it will either reboot or prompt you to reboot. If you want to re-enter and changes go back into the bios and do so, save and reboot then power down. Fit the new GPU and hopefully it will be working fine.