Upgrading a GPU

Tony EH

Thinking of replacing my old GTX770 with an RTX2060. She's only just started to show her age though and was a brilliant card.

I have an old Gigagyte Z97X-SLI LGA 1150, though, and was wondering if the RTX cards would fit into it?

Thanks in advance for any help.

wotzgoingon

It will fit the MB alright but what you have to check is how much room is in the case. But afaik them 2060's aren't too long of a card but always check just to be sure.

Tony EH

The case is huge. There's tons of space in there. It's a BitFenix Shinobi Full Tower.



The 770 is a pretty big card as it is and that fits fine. I was just wondering if there had been any changes in PCI-E connector tech and whatnot. I'd hate to blow a load of money on a new card and find out that the tech had outpaced me completely.

It's been so long since I've had to change any hardware that I feel like a total noob.

wotzgoingon

No the card will work perfectly fine in Motherboard.

Homelander

What CPU do you have? If it's an i7 it wouldn't be too bad but a 4th gen i5 is going to hard bottleneck a RTX2060.

Tony EH

It's an i7 4790k.

I'll probably be changing out the motherboard and the chip at some point this or next year too. I have to downgrade to Win 10 at some point as well I spose.