j7n Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 (edited) I've read conflicting reports about the compatibility of nVidia Kepler video adapters with older motherboards. Some say they require a UEFI bios, others say they still function. I am looking to upgrade an Intel G965 based Gigabyte board with classic looking Award Bios 6.0 with a new graphics card, most likely GT730. What old motherboards have you seen working with Nvidia 710,730,750 GPUs? There is slight confusion because the lower end models also exist as mislabeled Fermi GPUs, which should work, but have lower performance obviously. Edited November 13, 2022 by j7n Kepler -> 700-series Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j7n Posted October 4, 2022 Author Share Posted October 4, 2022 Nvidia GTX 750 Ti (Maxwell GM107) is confirmed working without any issues. It also works under Win2003, but at a cost of some non-PAE memory, which has been reduced to 2.75 GB. The speed is crazy, but not inexhaustible by XP-era games. Despite two fans, it is quet and cooler than GT 610 it replaced. I got it almost new for €50. GT 730s are going for more money. It seems that the BIOS issue affects mainly brandname Dell/HP computers. What I have is late Pentium 4 period motherboard. https://forums.evga.com/GT-740-upgrade-can39t-get-past-BIOS-splash-screen-m2565968.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.Draker Posted November 13, 2022 Share Posted November 13, 2022 On 9/28/2022 at 2:22 AM, j7n said: I've read conflicting reports about the compatibility of nVidia Kepler video adapters with older motherboards. Some say they require a UEFI bios, others say they still function. I am looking to upgrade an Intel G965 based Gigabyte board with classic looking Award Bios 6.0 with a new graphics card, most likely GT730. What old motherboards have you seen working with Nvidia 710,730,750 GPUs? There is slight confusion because the lower end models also exist as mislabeled Fermi GPUs, which should work, but have lower performance obviously. Nvidia 710,730,750 GPU - none of these are Kepler. So maybe change the topic name? It's confusing. It's not just "mislabeled", it's a common thing for nVidia to cheat the customers ans sell old junk under new labels. For example, I got scammed with my laptop. Nvidia sold me 820m, supposed to me Maxell, in fact it's the damn Fermi (AGAIN!) and only old outdated drivers somehow work. NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 Architecture Fermi https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-gt-730.c2590 NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 Architecture Fermi 2.0 https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-gt-710.c2614 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Architecture Maxwell https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-gtx-750.c1986 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j7n Posted November 13, 2022 Author Share Posted November 13, 2022 Some of the GT 710 and GT 730 are Kepler cores. These are the ones people had troubles with in old computers. You can see they have a greater number of cuda units than the older GF. https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-gt-710.c3027 https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-gt-730.c1988 I initially wanted the cheapest upgrade but later changed my mind, and maybe side-stepped the problem by selecting Maxwell. I've changed the title. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.Draker Posted November 13, 2022 Share Posted November 13, 2022 3 hours ago, j7n said: I've changed the title. 3 hours ago, j7n said: Some of the GT 710 and GT 730 are Kepler cores. These are the ones people had troubles with in old computers. You can see they have a greater number of cuda units than the older GF. https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-gt-710.c3027 https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-gt-730.c1988 I initially wanted the cheapest upgrade but later changed my mind, and maybe side-stepped the problem by selecting Maxwell. Thanks! Still not the ordinary Kepler. The links you gave are for the re-designed Kepler 2.0 architecture, more chances to fail on old mobos. This rare 710 (they don't even have the photo of it!) is based on GK208 - which has Architecture Kepler 2.0 https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/nvidia-gk208.g572 The second rare card 730 is also Kepler 2.0, more chances to fail on old mobos. https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-gt-730.c1988 If you want my experience, I ran ordinary Kepler 1.0 on old mobo based on Q965 chipset. But ( a big but ) - only drivers up to 347.88 worked ! Newer drivers had TDR and crashes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.Draker Posted November 13, 2022 Share Posted November 13, 2022 On 9/28/2022 at 2:22 AM, j7n said: G965 based I found how the mobo was called I used the Kepler 1.0 on , it was Siemens D2317 DDR2 Q965 . Made in Germany. So may add to the compatible . I used GTX680 on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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