Compatibility with 5770

[denim_20]

My motherboard is gigabyte (G31M-ES2L) ! I want to know whether ATI 5770 will b compatible with my motherboard ? and if not, which graphic card will be safer. I'm also upgarding my psu to 650w

 

[mikeymikec]

From the point of view of standards compliance it should be fine, but I would read a bit on say the Gigabyte forums about it to see whether there are lots of people complaining about graphics cards compatibility issues. It's always possible that there's a bug in the board's design or say with the chipset.

 

[BFG10K]

There’s no reason why it won’t work though you may need a BIOS update if your BIOS is really old. 650W is also completely overkill for that card.

256W total load system power draw:

 

[denim_20]

I contacted AMD and this was their reply:

Your motherboard is a G31 Intel chipset. From what I can see online it is a PCI Express 1.1 compliant motherboard.
The HD5xxx series cards are PCI Express 2.1 hardware compliant, they are backwards compatible to PCI Express 1.1a motherboards but have issues with earlier revisions. Issues range from no POST to simple wake from sleep issues but can also include instability, poor performance and graphics corruption.
Check with Gigabyte for any BIOS updates and see if they recommend PCI Express 2.1 cards in this motherboard, you are right at the borderline of compatibility.
The safest recomendation would be to stay away from HD5xxx and higher cards, the HD4xxx series is safe to upgrade to.
In order to update this service request, please respond, leaving the service request reference intact.
Best regards,
AMD Global Customer Care


Then i contacted Gigabyte and their reply:


Thank you for your kindly mail and inquiry. The card is PCI-E rev2.0 which is compatible with PCI-E 1.0 slot.

If you still have any further question or suggestion about our products/service, please do not hesitate to contact us. We will try our best to help you resolve the problem ASAP.

Regards,
GIGABYTE