When you search on internet, you can easily located lots of queries about RX 560 not work on legacy PCs without UEFI BIOS. But for GTX 1060, it should be fine. Check out Userbenchmark and you'll see lots of Precision 690 builds installed with this card.
Before returning your GTX 1060, you may try it on another PC if possible and see if same problem exist. And if so, probably problem from GPU. Otherwise, failure PCIe slot or even bad OS of your Precision 690 may be the root cause.
For Best Buy, I'm not sure if you were buying refurbished GPU from them. Personally I never recommend people buying second-handed GPU as we never know how these cards have been gone through. Some (or even most) of them came from virtual coins vending machines and you could hardly imagine how terrible their condition are.
Sorry, there was an error in the GTX card, it was a GEFORCE 1650 not a 1060.
Thank you for the reply. I see that there were a lot of legacy PCs that didn't work with that card but they are saying the 570 and 580 work fine so I may check into that.
I don't have another PC to use to check that GTX card out, just a laptop, so I had already returned it. I am going to try to buy another one I think to see if it works.
The card looked to be brand new and didn't say anything about being refurbished but who knows if it was or not. I was going to buy a used one but read that you never know how they were used so I decided against. I am going to try to go get another one today and will let you know how it works. I may even try a RX 580 if they have any.
Would it be the slot and the HD 5450 still work fine? I don't seem to have any issues with it, aside from it being old.
I was thinking of upgrading RAM when I upgrade the CPU's, do you have any suggestions for RAM?
Other than that I am happy with how the 690 still runs to this day, I will definitely upgrade when I am able to but seeing how the 690 has done throughout the years makes it hard to want to get something different.
With Xeon X5100 or X5300 series CPU, DDR2 memory, PCIe GEN1 slot and no USB3, I wonder if it still worth to hardware upgrade this old buddy. It could hardly handle modern applications or games even if you upgrade it to it's maximum likelihood. Better save money for another refurbished workstation with DDR3 and PCIe GEN3 at least.
bmcowboy
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August 16th, 2019 22:00
Hi @tronix3 ,
When you search on internet, you can easily located lots of queries about RX 560 not work on legacy PCs without UEFI BIOS. But for GTX 1060, it should be fine. Check out Userbenchmark and you'll see lots of Precision 690 builds installed with this card.
Before returning your GTX 1060, you may try it on another PC if possible and see if same problem exist. And if so, probably problem from GPU. Otherwise, failure PCIe slot or even bad OS of your Precision 690 may be the root cause.
For Best Buy, I'm not sure if you were buying refurbished GPU from them. Personally I never recommend people buying second-handed GPU as we never know how these cards have been gone through. Some (or even most) of them came from virtual coins vending machines and you could hardly imagine how terrible their condition are.
tronix3
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August 17th, 2019 13:00
Sorry, there was an error in the GTX card, it was a GEFORCE 1650 not a 1060.
Thank you for the reply. I see that there were a lot of legacy PCs that didn't work with that card but they are saying the 570 and 580 work fine so I may check into that.
I don't have another PC to use to check that GTX card out, just a laptop, so I had already returned it. I am going to try to buy another one I think to see if it works.
The card looked to be brand new and didn't say anything about being refurbished but who knows if it was or not. I was going to buy a used one but read that you never know how they were used so I decided against. I am going to try to go get another one today and will let you know how it works. I may even try a RX 580 if they have any.
Would it be the slot and the HD 5450 still work fine? I don't seem to have any issues with it, aside from it being old.
I was thinking of upgrading RAM when I upgrade the CPU's, do you have any suggestions for RAM?
Other than that I am happy with how the 690 still runs to this day, I will definitely upgrade when I am able to but seeing how the 690 has done throughout the years makes it hard to want to get something different.
Thanks again for the help
bmcowboy
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August 18th, 2019 21:00
Hi @tronix3 ,
Take a look at Wiki:
With Xeon X5100 or X5300 series CPU, DDR2 memory, PCIe GEN1 slot and no USB3, I wonder if it still worth to hardware upgrade this old buddy. It could hardly handle modern applications or games even if you upgrade it to it's maximum likelihood. Better save money for another refurbished workstation with DDR3 and PCIe GEN3 at least.