ASUS GT710-SL-1GD5 on ASUS M2N-MX SE Plus mobo with Win 10 Pro

Hehe please look at this post, @thomaseg1 has GT 710 and latest Windows 10 build: Latest NVIDIA GeForce Graphics Drivers for Windows 10 [2]

bobkn said:

PCI-E graphics cards are supposed to be backwards compatible with older motherboards. From what I have read, that's not 100%, though, due to occassional BIOS issues.

The odds are in your favor, fortunately. My only experience was with an AMD laptop with an nVidia motherboard plus a discrete nVidia GPU from 2008. I had a bit of fun getting all of the drivers installed, but I prevailed. I don't recall what the most recent Win10 version I put on it was, though. Haven't used it for a couple of years.

I tried the GT710 card but it wasn't much better than the 210

So I've put the 210 back and reinstalled Linux Mint. But I googled the BIOS for the motherboard and found it was out of date - version 0503 whereas the most recent is 0602. I did notice that 0602 is supposed to remedy the following - 'Fix the screen may become scrambled when running Turbo C'

I haven't a clue whether or not Win 10 runs Turbo C but I like the part where it says 'the screen may become scrambled'. I may attempt to update the BIOS - if I feel brave enough. Wish me luck!

The 710 should have a better performance than the 610 for 3D gaming. UserBenchmark: Nvidia GeForce GT 610 vs 710 Both are execrable by current standards for that.

For regular 2D graphics, either may serve.

I have never had a BIOS update fail - except for two of the first UEFI motherboards I owned. Neither had the BIOS recovery mode available with the M2N-MX SE Plus. You ought to be safe enough.

(Jeepers. I hadn't noticed that it's an old Geforce 6100/nForce 430 board. I can't recall when nVidia exited the AMD chipset business.)

I've not updated the BIOS on the AMD system (+ GT210 card) 'cos LM20 is running well - I'll let sleeping dogs lie...

I've installed the GT710 card in the newer PC and it's running fine.

I've loaded Win 10 Pro to a spare SSD which I'll run from time to time to install updates, etc.

I'll mark the issue as solved, though it isn't.

Thanks to Grom0X and bobkn for their input.

finnfire said:

I've not updated the BIOS on the AMD system (+ GT210 card) 'cos LM20 is running well - I'll let sleeping dogs lie...

I've installed the GT710 card in the newer PC and it's running fine.

I've loaded Win 10 Pro to a spare SSD which I'll run from time to time to install updates, etc.

I'll mark the issue as solved, though it isn't.

Thanks to Grom0X and bobkn for their input.