Graphics Card Support

[Hiro Hamada]

I have this motherboard MSI Z370 A PRO and will it support Nvidia GTX 1070Ti card? It says DDR5 graphics and I don't know for sure

[SupaKomputa]

yes it will support any gpu with a PCI-Express slot.

That is all that matters.

So you can plug any gpu from 2005 till today.

[Hiro Hamada]

4 minutes ago, SupaKomputa said:

yes it will support any gpu with a PCI-Express slot.

That is all that matters.

So you can plug any gpu from 2005 till today.

Are you sure? Because I am going to order that card

[SupaKomputa]

100%

[Willowwizard]

It's less an issue of motherboard support than power supply support, pretty much any motherboard nowadays with a PCIe slot (which is practically all of them save for a few special exceptions) will support a graphics card.

The real question is whether your computer's power supply can handle the amount of electrical current the GPU requires. The 1070 Ti requires a separate 8-pin ATX power connector, does your power supply have one?

Also, it can use up to 180 watts of power, and the recommended system power specs (because the power supply also has to power the motherboard, CPU, fans, drives, etc.) is 500 watts. Can your power supply provide 500 watts of power?

[Hiro Hamada]

10 hours ago, TakataruMC said:

It's less an issue of motherboard support than power supply support, pretty much any motherboard nowadays with a PCIe slot (which is practically all of them save for a few special exceptions) will support a graphics card.

The real question is whether your computer's power supply can handle the amount of electrical current the GPU requires. The 1070 Ti requires a separate 8-pin ATX power connector, does your power supply have one?

Also, it can use up to 180 watts of power, and the recommended system power specs (because the power supply also has to power the motherboard, CPU, fans, drives, etc.) is 500 watts. Can your power supply provide 500 watts of power?

My motherboard is connected to a Corsair TX750M psu and you just got me scared that I didn't have a 8pin connector but I have a 8pin(6+2) connector cable. Are you sure it will work? Because I've never seen a graphics card before

[Willowwizard]

5 hours ago, Hiro Hamada said:

My motherboard is connected to a Corsair TX750M psu and you just got me scared that I didn't have a 8pin connector but I have a 8pin(6+2) connector cable. Are you sure it will work? Because I've never seen a graphics card before

Decent modern motherboard and a 750 Watt 80+ Gold PSU ?

Of course it will work! There's no way it wouldn't work unless the card is faulty on arrival, just be sure to plug your display into the card and not into the motherboard once you get it, otherwise you'd still be working on integrated graphics

[Hiro Hamada]

1 hour ago, TakataruMC said:

Decent modern motherboard and a 750 Watt 80+ Gold PSU ?

Of course it will work! There's no way it wouldn't work unless the card is faulty on arrival, just be sure to plug your display into the card and not into the motherboard once you get it, otherwise you'd still be working on integrated graphics

Yes sure thanks. I was worried if the PCIe Express slot in my MSI Z370A Pro motherboard will support DDR5 or not

[-rascal-]

34 minutes ago, Hiro Hamada said:

Yes sure thanks. I was worried if the PCIe Express slot in my MSI Z370A Pro motherboard will support DDR5 or not

 

Video Memory (VRAM) on a graphics card, and System Memory (RAM / DRAM) used by the system is COMPLETELY independent of one another.

Hence it is GDDR5.

VRAM is accessed and used ONLY by the video card.

 

You can have a system with DDR2 RAM, and you can use a GPU with GDDR5 / GDDR6 / HBM2 memory.

As long as you have a PCI-Express X16 slot (physically), you are good to go.

 

Most power supplies will have PCI-E 6+2 pin cables, rather then fixed 6-pin or 8-pin.

They can work as EITHER 6 pin or 8 pin cables ... just less cable to deal with, making it more convenient for the user.

[Hiro Hamada]

59 minutes ago, -rascal- said:

 

Video Memory (VRAM) on a graphics card, and System Memory (RAM / DRAM) used by the system is COMPLETELY independent of one another.

Hence it is GDDR5.

VRAM is accessed and used ONLY by the video card.

 

You can have a system with DDR2 RAM, and you can use a GPU with GDDR5 / GDDR6 / HBM2 memory.

As long as you have a PCI-Express X16 slot (physically), you are good to go.

 

Most power supplies will have PCI-E 6+2 pin cables, rather then fixed 6-pin or 8-pin.

They can work as EITHER 6 pin or 8 pin cables ... just less cable to deal with, making it more convenient for the user.

Thanks a lot. That cleared my mind. So what should I do if a card has too many power input pins? Like this one as in the picture. Do you see the number of pin connectors there in that graphics card? Should I plug 2 (6+2) pins all together or any one is enough? 

[-rascal-]

10 minutes ago, Hiro Hamada said:

Thanks a lot. That cleared my mind. So what should I do if a card has too many power input pins? Like this one as in the picture. Do you see the number of pin connectors there in that graphics card? Should I plug 2 (6+2) pins all together or any one is enough? 

 

 

The 6+2 connectors look like this:

 

For the 8-pin, connect the 6+2 together, and connect it to the GPU.

For the 6-pin, just don't use the extra 2 pins, and connect it to the GPU.

 

The MSi GTX 1070 Ti has a header for a 6-pin and an 8-pin.

You can't jam 8-pins into a 6-pin header...

 

 

 

Hope that clears things up a bit.

[Hiro Hamada]

28 minutes ago, -rascal- said:

 

The 6+2 connectors look like this:

 

For the 8-pin, connect the 6+2 together, and connect it to the GPU.

For the 6-pin, just don't use the extra 2 pins, and connect it to the GPU.

 

The MSi GTX 1070 Ti has a header for a 6-pin and an 8-pin.

You can't jam 8-pins into a 6-pin header...

 

 

 

Hope that clears things up a bit.

You are the life saver lol. Thanks a lot. Nobody can explain me better than you