New GPU with legacy BIOS ( no UEFI )?

[is_life_real]

I hear some of the new graphics cards have issues with out UEFI support if anyone can recommend a budget gaming card for legacy BIOS? Does the GTX 1050 Ti play nicely with older motherboards? Thanks

[Mossy Snake]

What motherboard do you have?

[MaddDoktor [Linux]]

Newer graphics cards are supposedly made to benefit from UEFI, but not sure in what way. When I was using an MSI Twin Frozr Gaming GTX 750 Ti OC, it had a tiny DIP switch on it that defaulted to UEFI/BIOS hybrid, but I did not even try that setting, I used the Legacy BIOS position for my legacy BIOS PC from 2010 with PCIe 2.0 slot.

Since then I installed a 3 GB Asus Dual GTX 1060 OC which I don't even think has such a switch, but it works fine with my old PC. The reason I got this card was because it was the best 1060 that Fry's had in stock at the time with 6-pin power from my stock Dell PSU (some 1060's use 8-pin). Then I upgraded my CPU from i5 650 to i7 870, RAM from 8 GB DDR3 1066 to 16 GB 1333 and was able to increase graphic settings for the GTX 1060 without losing speed. My CPU is still a little slower than a newer i5 with faster RAM, but seemed to be a worthwhile CPU/RAM upgrade for a little over $300 US total, vs. building a new system from scratch minus graphics.

Now the limiting factor is the GPU which peaks in the 95-100% range (while only using about half of its 3 GB @ 1080p, due to texture compression) vs. around 60% peak for the i7 870 CPU. Peak power use after damaging one of the legs on my CPU cooler doing the CPU upgrade was very briefly 236 watts, but I have not seen it go over 220 watts (running Unigine Heaven in extreme settings) since replacing the CPU cooler (measured AC input with "Kill A Watt" meter).

I primarily run Ubuntu Linux with nvidia drivers packaged for it on a Dell XPS 8100 with its OEM 350 watt PSU purchased in 2010.