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Does graphics card UEFI or BIOS has anything with UEFI and BIOS on HDD?

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I recently bought Aorus RX 570 to replace HD 6570, my motherboard supports both both uefi and bios, my old graphics card is at bios, while this new is at uefi. My hdd is at legacy bios mode... I dont understand a thing so i was wondering if someone can explain it to me..

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Nope, no difference. No need to worry.

UEFI just allows for more modern OSes to be installed with more security (I think!) and store things like the product code and such. I’d suggest doing a search on Google to read up about it.
 
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More technically speaking, BIOS is a holdover from the original 16-bit IBM designed Basic Input Output System (Hence BIOS).

It was used until UEFI replaced it around 2012sh (don't quote me on that, may be earlier or later depending on board maker). UEFI is a complete ground up 64-bit rewrite of old 16-bit legacy bios code. Most (all really) UEFIs also include a 16-bit "CSM" module to implement compatibility functions for devices that don't have their own 64-bit UEFI rom code up to date or ready.

UEFI's main achievements are invisible to the end user. But the most visible one is whether you do a legacy or non-legacy "UEFI-style" install. The only real benefit (besides secure boot) doing a proper UEFI install yields you is the ability to use the GPT partition table, which is much more flexible and allows drives over 4TB (vs legacy MBR).
 
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R-T-B said:
More technically speaking, BIOS is a holdover from the original 16-bit IBM designed Basic Input Output System (Hence BIOS).

It was used until UEFI replaced it around 2012sh (don't quote me on that, may be earlier or later depending on board maker). UEFI is a complete ground up 64-bit rewrite of old 16-bit legacy bios code. Most (all really) UEFIs also include a 16-bit "CSM" module to implement compatibility functions for devices that don't have their own 64-bit UEFI rom code up to date or ready.

UEFI's main achievements are invisible to the end user. But the most visible one is whether you do a legacy or non-legacy "UEFI-style" install. The only real benefit (besides secure boot) doing a proper UEFI install yields you is the ability to use the GPT partition table, which is much more flexible and allows drives over 4TB (vs legacy MBR).
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So i can use UEFI graphics card like RX 570 on Legacy mobo?
 
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Mios said:
So i can use UEFI graphics card like RX 570 on Legacy mobo?
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Yes the two are unrelated.

For proper graphics card support, check PCIe versions but even those are backwards compatible. Only in extreme situations (very old mobo + new top-end GPU) will that be a problem and even then its just a lack of bandwidth - not a lack of support.

GPU support relies on drivers/OS and the hardware has its own 'firmware' (UEFI/BIOS). Its a very generic piece of hardware and essentially also its own (sub)system on a card.
 
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So i can use UEFI graphics card like RX 570 on Legacy mobo?
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yes, just do it, 'cause now we know that you know that we know that you know you wanna... hehehehe :)
 
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