Help with compatibility

They are compatible in the sense the card will work with that motherboard.

However it would be a bit of a waste as the card is gen 3 while the motherboard is only pci-e gen 2.
 
jamesd1981 said:
They are compatible in the sense the card will work with that motherboard.

However it would be a bit of a waste as the card is gen 3 while the motherboard is only pci-e gen 2.
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That doesn't matter unless you're using a really high end card. A 760 won't use the bandwidth of a 2.0 slot even. It will work fine, but the motherboard is kind of an old chipset.
 
Yes i know very few cards take pci-e 2.0 to it`s limit, but i never see any point in pairing up a new component with up to date standards with an older outdated component.
 
I'm running a 4 year old CPU with a 1.5 year old GPU. I'm still doing fine. :D

Heck my card is 3.0 in a 2.0 slot.
 
Thank you for the answers, could you help me on how you figure out if a video card is compatible with a motherboard? Like what do you look for?
 
Check the slot type of the video card and the slot types on the motherboard itself. Almost all video cards are PCI Express x16. There are 3 revisions out right now of that, 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0. There are also slower PCI-E slots such as x8 and x4. On top of that a 2.0 PCI-E x8 slot is the same as a 1.0 PCI-E x16. 3.0 x8 PCI-E is the same PCI-E 2.0 x16.

That's all more than you need to know really. Basically all modern video cards will work with almost all modern motherboards. Only a handful of the super high end video cards will need the speed that revision 3.0 offers. So don't worry about that. They say 3.0 for marketing reasons but they honestly don't need it. My Radeon 7850 is a 3.0 Revision but I run it in a 2.0 slot.

More importantly you need to make sure you have an adequate power supply for your video card since most are very power hungry.
 
Thanks Denther, looked for like 30 minutes trying to find an explanation like that and couldn't find any. :good:
 
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