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Can My Motherboard Handle My GTX 980

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  • 26-12-2014 6:15pm
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    CeebsB
    Registered Users Posts: 7 ✭


    Ok so I have a MSI 2AE0 motherboard in my PC. And I am think of buying an EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Superclocked ACX 2.0 4GB Nvidia PCI Express Graphics Card. But my motherboard only has:

    1 x PCI Express x16 (2.0)
    1 x PCI Express Mini Card x1
    3 x PCI Express x1 (2.0)

    So I was wondering whether this would bottleneck my PC not having a PCI Express 3.0 or if it would allow the GPU to run fine.

    Thanks.
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    game4it70
    Registered Users Posts: 2,123 ✭✭✭game4it70


    It would run fine as its backwards compatible.Afaik latest gpu's barely saturate 2.0 so you should not notice any difference not having 3.0.


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    CeebsB
    Registered Users Posts: 7 ✭CeebsB


    Ok thanks for letting me know!


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    TerrorFirmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    What processor do you have? It's pretty much guaranteed it'll be a bottleneck given that it's FM2. Better off getting a new board + Intel cpu and a GTX970 then putting a GTX980 into an FM2 machine.


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    #5
    CeebsB
    Registered Users Posts: 7 ✭CeebsB


    Ye I'm buying a new board an ASUS MAXIMUS VII HERO and Intel i7 4790k CPU and I'm going to over clock it. So my specs will be:

    Processor: Intel i7 4790k
    Motherboard: Asus Maximus VII Hero
    Memory: Corsair Vengeance 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600
    Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX Superclock ACX 2.0 4GB
    Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply


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