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EVGA Nforce 790 FTW & Compatible Graphics Card with 4K Support

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2020/03/18 14:29:27 (permalink)
Hello, 
 
I have a EVGA nForce 790 FTW motherboard (i know its older motherboard) which is currently running a geforce gtx 570, i wanted to upgrade this card to one that would support 4k output to my flat panel 4k tv mainly for watching 4k content. 
 
I got a EVGA geforce gtx 780 SC ACX 6gb graphics card for a good price but cannot get it to work properly probably due to the lack of uefi support from the motherboard bios.  Sometimes it will post but most of the time i get the no graphics card detected by the bios.
 
I've tested the card in a uefi motherboard with no problems. 
 
Can anybody confirm a 'modern' graphics card with 4k support that will work in my motherboard, or am i out of luck ?
 
Thank you in advance for any recommendations or advice . 
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    Re: EVGA Nforce 790 FTW & Compatible Graphics Card with 4K Support 2020/03/18 22:08:34 (permalink)
    If you don't mind running an amd card... https://www.newegg.com/msi-radeon-r9-290x-r9-290x-gaming-4g/p/N82E16814127773 it supports hybrid bios... https://event.msi.com/2014/vga/Hybrid_BIOS/
     
    If you want to stick with a nvidia card that has the same hybrid bios switch as above... https://www.esaitech.com/msi-nvidia-geforce-gtx-750-ti-gaming-oc-2gb-gddr5-vga-dvi-hdmi-pci-express-video-card-n750ti-tf-2gd5-oc.html 
     
     
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    Re: EVGA Nforce 790 FTW & Compatible Graphics Card with 4K Support 2020/03/19 00:41:30 (permalink)
    A good idea,bro.
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    Re: EVGA Nforce 790 FTW & Compatible Graphics Card with 4K Support 2020/03/19 05:12:45 (permalink)
    Thank you for you answers and recommendations, i will look at those two recommended graphics cards.
     
    I did also contact EVGA support and they confirmed that the GTX 700 series of cards were the first cards to have uefi bios.  EVGA have stated that the GTX 700 series of cards are backward compatible with non uefi motherboard bios.
     
    Maybe a vga bios update for my GTX780 with help the problem ?
     
    Current bios the card is running is :- 80.80.58.00.82 
     
    Is the Radeon R9 290x 4GB capable of outputting 4k ?
     
     
    post edited by squonkywonky - 2020/03/19 05:15:04
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    Re: EVGA Nforce 790 FTW & Compatible Graphics Card with 4K Support 2020/03/19 05:59:38 (permalink)
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    Thank you for you answers and recommendations, i will look at those two recommended graphics cards.
     
    I did also contact EVGA support and they confirmed that the GTX 700 series of cards were the first cards to have uefi bios.  EVGA have stated that the GTX 700 series of cards are backward compatible with non uefi motherboard bios.
     
    Maybe a vga bios update for my GTX780 with help the problem ?
     
    Current bios the card is running is :- 80.80.58.00.82 
     
    Is the Radeon R9 290x 4GB capable of outputting 4k ?
     
     


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    Re: EVGA Nforce 790 FTW & Compatible Graphics Card with 4K Support 2020/03/19 06:17:38 (permalink)
    Oh ok, sorry i will email support.
     
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    Re: EVGA Nforce 790 FTW & Compatible Graphics Card with 4K Support 2020/03/19 18:38:05 (permalink)
    squonkywonky 
    Is the Radeon R9 290x 4GB capable of outputting 4k ?

    Yes.
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    Re: EVGA Nforce 790 FTW & Compatible Graphics Card with 4K Support 2020/04/03 13:37:04 (permalink)
    Thank you everybody for your informative replies. 
     
    I have managed to get the GTX 780 SC ACX 6GB graphics card working in my eVGA nForce 790 FTW , and i have upgraded the memory to 16GB memory. 
     
    The system is running well , although to get the GTX 780 to work i had the flash the bios to the P10 bios file for the xfx 790 ultra chipset motherboard. 
     
    Thanks again for all your help . 
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    Re: EVGA Nforce 790 FTW & Compatible Graphics Card with 4K Support 2020/04/03 13:56:29 (permalink)

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    Re: EVGA Nforce 790 FTW & Compatible Graphics Card with 4K Support 2020/04/04 05:46:46 (permalink)
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    Thank you everybody for your informative replies. 
     
    I have managed to get the GTX 780 SC ACX 6GB graphics card working in my eVGA nForce 790 FTW , and i have upgraded the memory to 16GB memory. 
     
    The system is running well , although to get the GTX 780 to work i had the flash the bios to the P10 bios file for the xfx 790 ultra chipset motherboard. 
     
    Thanks again for all your help . 


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    Re: EVGA Nforce 790 FTW & Compatible Graphics Card with 4K Support 2020/04/24 05:26:53 (permalink)
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