OLD motherboard - ASrock dual vsta + ati 7850??

Goldfingers · 12 Aug 2013 at 12:40

I know pci-3 is backwards compatible but this is such an old board do you reckon it will still work with new graphics cards? I checked and no bios updates past 2006...

http://www.asrock.com/mb/VIA/775Dual-VSTA/

altrewin · 12 Aug 2013 at 12:46

It might work, but the card would be bottlenecked beyond reason by not only the processor but also the fact that it's a PCI-E 1st gen slot running at x4

MagicBoy · 12 Aug 2013 at 12:49

Might work, although VIA chipsets are a bit of an unknown quantity. I wouldn't fancy it though for the following reason :
1 x PCI Express Graphics slot (@ x4 mode)

You'd be running a PCI-E 3.0 card at PCI-E 1.0 4x. That's 1/16th of the bandwidth you'd get on a PCI-E v3 16x slot which is a severe bottleneck.

Swap the board.

Goldfingers · 12 Aug 2013 at 13:01

ah that sucks! Looks like i'll just have to do a whole new build. Any idea for a cheap graphics card of a similar gen that would work for the time being? Just want to be able to play wow, league of legends and counter strike at decent fps.

MagicBoy · 12 Aug 2013 at 13:14

What do you have at the moment?

Goldfingers · 12 Aug 2013 at 13:47

This isn't my main pc, it was given to me by a friend as I only have a laptop atm. It's got a crappy gfx card that is in the vga slot lol, so anything would be better. It has 2gb ram and a dual core 4200xp cpu, so it's not terrible.

pastymuncher · 12 Aug 2013 at 19:05

That board kept cropping up as having problems with pci-e 2.0 cards when they came out let alone pci-e 3.0 cards. As the others have said though, the card would be so bottlenecked it would'nt be worth trying.

Are you sure you got the right board because that's a intel 775 board and you said it has a AMD 4200 in it. They are not compatible.

wazza300 · 12 Aug 2013 at 19:17

tbh its not worth spending on a 7850 for it

pickup a cheap intel board/cpu if you intend on the 7850