Windows 10: Excuse my stupidity...Need help with PCI video card

Have ATI radeon 4870 PCI Express 2.0 X 16

Looking at...

PNY Verto GeForce GT 730 1Gb PCI Express 2.0 X 16

PNY GeForce GT 1030 PCI Express 3.0 X 4

Are these two cards interchangable? Will the 3.0 X 4 fit/work in a 2.0 X 16 slot?

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USB PCI installation with video in PCI 16 slot.

HP PAvilion a6567c cpu system needs to have both PCI slots operational to have an USB hub card in the PCI slot, and the video card in the PCI 16 slot. When I install the USB hub, the video card quits. Any solutions possible? Thanks.

 

2GB nVIDIA GeForce GT630 PCI-e video card doesn't work in Windows 10

I recently got (bought) a 2GB nVIDIA GeForce GT630 PCI-e video card and I installed it in my computer that has a Windows 10 operating system. But when I turned my desktop on with the GT630 video card installed, nothing happened. The video card won't work.
The fan isn't running. Nothing. My question is, does Windows 10 support 2GB video cards?

 

Yes, it will work

pci express - Can I be 100% certain that a PCIe x4 card will fit in a PCIe x16 slot? - Super User

 

If this worked, I have two attachments. Cards look the same

 

They both look like PCIe cards although the bottom one shows less 'pins' or contacts than the top one. There's no way either will fit the older PCI slots and the third type of card is an AGP, only looks a bit like the PCIe but won't fit the PCIe slot. PCIe = PCI Express. As for less contacts, gold for the plating is expensive, no point using it if not needed. In the grand scheme of things technological the AGP replaced the PCI [which replaced the ISA] and the AGP was replaced by the PCIe.

 

I checked the PNY web site.

Their 1030 uses a physical PCI-E X16 slot, but electrically it's PCI-E X4.

PNY claims that the 1030 has 4X the performance of the 730. If so, the modest price difference would make the 1030 attractive.

 

Just to double check, please...
I'll get the 1030 if this will fit/work in a Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 Rev. 3.3

GA-965P-DS3 (rev. 3.3) | Motherboard - GIGABYTE


Thanks for you help.

 

I have a GT 730 but if I were you I'd go for GT 1030.

Keep in mind though, the GT 1030 does not support analog signal that's why it does not come with a D-Sub port. An adapter will not even work with it .

 

For anyone interested, it will not work. Per PNY...

Thank you for contacting PNY Technical Support.

By spec PCIE 3.0 is backward compatible with PCIE 2.0 however the newer cards are UEFI compliant and will not work in pre-UEFI motherboards. Unfortunately the motherboard you have listed is a pre-UEFI motherboard, regardless of the PCIE version GeForce 700 series or later will not work on this motherboard.

Jan

 

Thanks for sharing this, I didnt realize the MB was pre uefi

 

I guess that I know even less about hardware than I thought. I'm surprised that they don't make the cards more backwards compatible. I'll have to do a little studying to see whether I can get a clearer grasp of the issue.

I wondered whether Gigabyte might have a BIOS update to take the motherboard into UEFI compliance, but the latest one listed is from 2009. No mention of that in the short release notes.

Sounds like you may be outa luck in terms of graphics card upgrades. My sympathies.

 

I'm pretty sure it will still work as I have used a GTX 460 on a Z97 motherboard.

 

That UEFI story sounds like BS to be honest.

Anyway, why are you even considering a 730? Those are 3 years old atleast

 

I purchased a GT 730 1GB GDDR5 to replace my dead GTX 460 SE.

The performance difference is very huge, it's a siginificant downgrade. If I had the extra budget I had then went to GT 1030.

The GT 1030 is a great budget graphics card, the performance of that sits in between GTX 750 and GTX 750 Ti.