The 4200 your board has and the 610 aren't really much different , the 610 might have more vram but if the gpu is low end then the vram really won't help much.
The 4200 your board has and the 610 aren't really much different , the 610 might have more vram but if the gpu is low end then the vram really won't help much.
The only AMD drivers that could interfere would be the AMD/ATI HD 4200 graphics drivers - if the driver + the Catalyst Control Center was installed. The premise that it's better to run an AMD card on and AMD chipset board is dead wrong. Patently false, though you will hear it from time to time in forums even from experienced people.The thing to watch out for is only conflicting video drivers. It's perfectly fine to run (example) and FX6300/Asus 970a motherboard with a GTX 760 - there is no potential from cross-conflict, and zero degradation of performance of any kind vs.an equal AMD card. If your case you have the 785GT AMD chipset with the HD 4200 onboard - so any conflict like I said would be video only. NOT the Microsoft default drivers, but video specific drivers installed with ATI-AMD Catalyst Control (as I mentioned before).
A good card would for your system would be something like a GTX 760 or R9 270x if your budget will allow. Even a GTX 660 would work well
By the way how is that Patriot memory running? I'm the one that sold it to you I changed my user name. I still have some compatible CPU's available (4 ATM - 2 quads and 2 - 6 bangers). I mention this because with your processor looking for a higher end GPU you will see some bottlenecking in gaming - resolution depending of course.
The only AMD drivers that could interfere would be the AMD/ATI HD 4200 graphics drivers - if the driver + the Catalyst Control Center was installed. The premise that it's better to run an AMD card on and AMD chipset board is dead wrong. Patently false, though you will hear it from time to time in forums even from experienced people.The thing to watch out for is only conflicting video drivers. It's perfectly fine to run (example) and FX6300/Asus 970a motherboard with a GTX 760 - there is no potential from cross-conflict, and zero degradation of performance of any kind vs.an equal AMD card. If your case you have the 785GT AMD chipset with the HD 4200 onboard - so any conflict like I said would be video only. NOT the Microsoft default drivers, but video specific drivers installed with ATI-AMD Catalyst Control (as I mentioned before).
By the way how is that Patriot memory running? I'm the one that sold it to you I changed my user name. by the way I still have some CPU's available. I mention this because with your processor looking for a higher end GPU you will see some bottlenecking in gaming - resolution depending of course.
I have been thinking about a new cpu, but not sure how much money I want to put into upgrades for this old motherboard. The graphics card was free so I thought I would try it.
Well, try the card in another system to verify that the NV 610 is in working order. Your PSU is a great brand Seasonic so you 'should' be ok there. It's possible you have a dud card. Check that if you had ever installed any video specific drivers before for your HD 4200 --- if you have them on your system uninstall them. You can also try blowing (very carefully) your PCIe slot with canned air, and carefully but firmly reseating your NV 610 card. It might not be making proper contact. If you have the HD 4200 drivers installed all you have to do is run the CCC (catalyst Control Uninstaller) and when it comes up it will ask what you want to uninstall. Pick only the video -- reboot.
Well, try the card in another system to verify that the NV 610 is in working order. Your PSU is a great brand Seasonic so you 'should' be ok there. It's possible you have a dud card. Check that if you had ever installed any video specific drivers before for your HD 4200 --- if you have them on your system uninstall them. You can also try blowing (very carefully) your PCIe slot with canned air, and carefully but firmly reseating your NV 610 card. It might not be making proper contact. If you have the HD 4200 drivers installed all you have to do is run the CCC (catalyst Control Uninstaller) and when it comes up it will ask what you want to uninstall. Pick only the video -- reboot.
^ yeah true, and I noticed many years ago Jim even with the old Nvidia chipset motherboards that if you did a 'total' driver install,with many AMD boards with onboard video (not to be confused with new AMD boards with APU), that if you wanted to install a ATI card you would have to both, go through the total NV uninstaller, and then also use driver cleaner to manually remove only the onboard video driver, and all the associated driver registry entries.
Then you are all clear usually. As you know well onboard (as in motherboard video) is nearly gone nowdays, but there are still plenty of slightly older mainboards just like this one out there, and there are still 760G AMD boards sold with onboard HD 4200 on major websites.
So to address something you said in part it's true it's IS easier to use and AMD-ATI card on a system that has an AMD chipset with onboard video, because the native aspect of both the GPU and mobo installer negates any reason to clean any driver, be it manually or auto.
When you install an NV card in that type system, many times if a full install was done on the CCC with video driver included, you have to then go through the CCC uninstaller, and then manually pick the GPU driver only for uninstall, reboot, and then run a driver cleaner tool.
Glad you resolved the problem and thanks for posting back.
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