Screwed up with my video card upgrade

Soooo I screwed up. Tried to upgrade my power supply and video card but my motherboard wont support PCI-E 3.0 cards

Current motherboard is: ipisb-ch2 and processor is a Intel i5-2400

Heres what I bought:

http://www.ncix.com/detail/asus-radeon-r9-270x-1120mhz-f2-91110-1423.htm
http://www.ncix.com/detail/evga-600b-bronze-600w-80-06-89067-1423.htm

The power supply works well but the card doesnt fit well inside my case so I'm going to dip into my savings and build a whole new system now that I already have these 2 items.

Can somebody point me in the right direction on what I should buy on a tight budget?

Should mention that I did a BIOS update, and unistalled all my old video card drivers before installing the new ones.

 

Well.. you could buy some cheap motherboard for 50€ that supports intel cpu lga 1155. Even if they are cheap, they are somewhat modern, so they will give support for pci x16 3.0 graphic cards. How do I know? I have a cheap 50€ motherboard with support for modern video cards.. but I think the stock on this hardware is low, since the cpu socket lga 1155 is outdated. Just search online or find a local pc hardware store.

 

I wouldn't necessarily buy a new 1155 motherboard as QUF suggests unless you really don't have much money. 1155 is an outdated platform and was replaced by 1150 (really confusing that they went backwards with the numbers, but 1150 is the more recent socket) and it is also going to be replaced by 1151 very soon. If you are on a very tight budget the G258 processor is amazing for the price, and you can pair it with a cheap 1150 motherboard for less than $150. Your i5-2400 is a quad core while the g3258 is only a dual core, but the g3258 has far better single core processing power, and for games that is often the most important part for a processor. You would also at least have the option to overclock your g3258 as well, while it's not possible for a base 2400.

One plus if you did just buy a temporary 1155 board is that it would allow you extra money to upgrade to 1151 and Skylake in a few months if you can wait.

 

if memory serves me right, PCI-E V3.0 only works on forth generation CPU`s.

Example 4820k.

Have you tried selecting Gen2 In your Bios Options?

 

It should automagically 'downgrade' to PCI-E 2.0 if either mobo or gfx card don't support it.
It's same as running GFX card, which is x16 speed at x2 with PCI-E risers, or often when using crossfire/SLI mode on some mobo's that either both or one is running at x8 speed.

 

My older motherboard only supports PCI-E 2.o and I have a 3.0 card and it works just fine at 2.0 and you really do not take much of a performance hit in doing running it at 2.0

http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Impact-of-PCI-E-Speed-on-Gaming-Performance-518/

 

Well I cannot get my computer to boot with the card installed. I don't know what I am doing wrong

 

Where do I find the BIOS options?

 

Something like this (taken from google images)

 

sorry RW, not familiar with HP let alone the Pegatron range.

Never touched HP even with a 10ft barge poll.

Reason, in the good old days, dell/hp used different wirings in the psu, thus not being able to use clone parts.

Best advice would be to contact HP customer services and tell them about your problems.
hopefully then can sort your problem out.

Worst case scenario, the Motherboard might not be compatible no matter what you do.

It seems a lot of users are having the same problem as you describe.

I wish you the best of luck

 

Found the problem, my mobo is PCI-E 1.0 so 3.0 will never work

 

if you have a HP puter you may have to go in your bios and turn off SECURE BOOT, and turn on LEGACY SUPPORT. not sure if yours needs this but for me I had to do this to have it boot my video card (GTX970) that was not approved by the manufacture. Your puter can run a 3.0 card even if it is a 2.0 PCIe. so it might be something else like I am mentioning

http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/doc/...umpid=reg_r1002_usen_c-001_title_r0008#N10155

 

My Sapphire 280x also had button on itself for UEFI - maybe your card has the same? click/un-click it?

 

I had the same PC case for nearly 10 years, it was an amazing Antec one that I purchased in 2005. It was so light (all aluminum) you could almost pick it up with one finger.

I had to retire it last year due to buying a new video card (780 GTX) and it would not fit in the case.

Aluminum cases are becoming rarer now it seems, I guess cost comes into it. My old one only cost something like £60, you need to spend £120+ now to get a decent aluminum one.

 

There is so much rubbish here.

PCIE is backwards compatible!!
Meaning a PCIE 2.0 slot allows PCIE 3.0 devices to function same as a USB 3 slot allows USB 2 devices to work.

Did you plug in all the power leads to your GPU? If it has 2 power sockets both must be connected to the PSU.

i5 G3258 from i5 2400 that is the most daft thing I've heard in a while.