Dumb question, the mobo PCIe is 2.0..yes?
It shouldn't matter right? AFAIK any PCIe 16x slot should provide up to 75 watts to a GPU.
It shouldn't matter right? AFAIK any PCIe 16x slot should provide up to 75 watts to a GPU.
I see. I haven't tried 4850 in nForce4. I have a 4850 at work that I could throw in my DFI nForce4 in the closet if there's interest in finding out. For that matter I could try a 560 Ti and a 6950 too.back in 2008 I had to update the bios of my asrock nforce MB to support HD38xx Radeons for example... I've also seen HD4800 radeons not working with a few nforce 650 MBs
Issues existed with certain early PCIe motherboards, and vid cards close to the 75 watt limit. The card may draw too much current or the mobo doesn't supply enough. Sometimes an incompatibility can be falsely attributed to PCIe 1.0, 1.1 or 2.x. Other times the PCIe incompatibility does exist but is very rare.
Here the GT620's TDP is 49 watts so no power issue should exist.
I wonder if the motherboard itself is dying, has errors on the PCIe bus or hypertransport. Or you've just bought a dead card, that is possible too.
I would use the PC with an old PCI card such as an S3 Virge, ATI Rage Pro if you still have that around (I like to keep an old S3 card if I can)
If you're forced to buy new hardware the APU suggestion was decent but maybe a FX-6350 is a reasonable option too that should last tons of time.
Probably PCIe incompatibility. Or ya maybe the motherboard is flaky.
Hit up ebay. I've run up to a 3870 in nForce4 and that is a PCIe 2.0 card. The 4000 series would probably work too. 4850 would max that CPU out. Maybe look for 1gig cards since 512mb is often an issue for anything recent. I've played new stuff like Dishonored on 3870 and 4850. 3870 won't run Skyrim correctly fyi.
Don't buy old NV cards because many are flaky because of the bumpgate solder controversy.
Probably PCIe incompatibility. Or ya maybe the motherboard is flaky.
Hit up ebay. I've run up to a 3870 in nForce4 and that is a PCIe 2.0 card. The 4000 series would probably work too. 4850 would max that CPU out. Maybe look for 1gig cards since 512mb is often an issue for anything recent. I've played new stuff like Dishonored on 3870 and 4850. 3870 won't run Skyrim correctly fyi.
Don't buy old NV cards because many are flaky because of the bumpgate solder controversy.
gt 620 probably never uses more than 30w anyway,
if it's not working I would first test the card with a newer PC, if it works, it's probably some strange compatibility issue, back in 2008 I had to update the bios of my asrock nforce MB to support HD38xx Radeons for example... I've also seen HD4800 radeons not working with a few nforce 650 MBs
PCIE 1.x should work (and works) with PCIE 2+ VGAs, but it could be a problem of your specific MB+VGA combination and whatever aspect on the firmware is causing it.
GT 620 is a renamed GT 520 basically, it's a Fermi GPU, just like a GT 430 (but half of it), I don't remember reading about many compatibility issues from Fermi GPUs (PCIE 2.0) and older MBs.