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New PCI Express graphics card in old motherboard ?

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  • 18-12-2014 12:06am
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    CreepingDeath
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    I'm not a "serious" gamer, my main games pc is over 5 years old.

    CPU : Quad core Q6700
    Motherboard : Penryn 1600 SLI
    Graphics Card: GeForce 9800 GTX
    PSU : 600w

    I see a bargains alert for an Sapphire AMD R9 280.

    It's says it's a PCI-E interface, and the Penryn 1600 SLI motherboard says it supports "3 x PCI Express x16 slots (white @ x16 mode, yellow @ x8 mode) ".

    So do you reckon it'll fit/work ?
    Or is there anything fundamental that ye can pick up straight off that's incompatible ?

    regards,
    CD
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    ED E
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    Should work fine, but it'll be bottlenecked by the CPU so you wont see the full benefit of it.


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    TerrorFirmer
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    With that machine, just go for a €100 GTX750. Even that will be bottle necked in many games by that old CPU.


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    CreepingDeath
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    Thanks for the replies.

    The current setup runs adequately enough for me to play Crysis 1 & 2.
    Just not sure I want to shell out €200 for a graphics card just to play Crysis 3.

    But good to know it "should" work.

    cheers,
    CD


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