Upgrading video card to older motherboard

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Hey everyone,

I have a Asus P5B deluxe mother board
http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_775/P5B_Deluxe/
and im running it with an intel core 2 quad @ 2.40 Ghz.
2 GB DDR2 RAM ( Upgrading to 4GB DDR2 soon )
My current video card is an Asus EN8800gts 512mb.


If I were to upgrade my video card to an EVGA GTX 550 Ti 1gb
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130625
to my current ASUS P5B deluxe mother board. Would it be able to take it?

I do understand the 2.0 will fit the ASUS 1.0 because its backwards compatible... but will it affect performance in anyway? if it does, how so?

Im just worried if my Mobo will take it.

Thanks for the help!:sly:

( Prepping for guild wars 2 )
 
corporatesteve
Hey everyone,

I have a Asus P5B deluxe mother board
http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_775/P5B_Deluxe/
and im running it with an intel core 2 quad @ 2.40 Ghz.
2 GB DDR2 RAM ( Upgrading to 4GB DDR2 soon )
My current video card is an Asus EN8800gts 512mb.


If I were to upgrade my video card to an EVGA GTX 550 Ti 1gb
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130625
to my current ASUS P5B deluxe mother board. Would it be able to take it?

I do understand the 2.0 will fit the ASUS 1.0 because its backwards compatible... but will it affect performance in anyway? if it does, how so?

Im just worried if my Mobo will take it.

Thanks for the help!:sly:

( Prepping for guild wars 2 )
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Probably not in any real noticeable way. I've been planning a videocard upgrade for the longest time and I'm in the same boat as you, however I plan on using a PCI-E Gen 3 card and I don't foresee and major issues other than not having the full PCI-E bandwidth, which generally no one is able to fully use in the first place. For a little bit more into, I'd suggest looking at the Wikipedia page on PCI-E and reading about the bandwidth. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express

Bottom line, it might be a bottleneck, it might not be. The only way to check is to take the plunge and buy it.

One other thing to check out before you make the purchase is if your power supply can handle the card.
 
The difference will be very minute, and almost un-noticable in realtime games etc. Only way you will really see a difference is in synthetic benchmarks.
 
One thing for sure is that the GPU will be bottlenecked by the PCIE Gen 1 bandwidth. I would not suggest getting the GPU at all. The GPU will be limited by the bandwidth and there will be a limit of the fps of your system vs a motherboard with PCIE 2.0 slots. Your computer as is will be able to play Guild Wars 2. Even right now it's above minimum system requirements for Guild Wars 2 and your system meets some of the recommended requirements for the processor(It says at least 2.13GHz C2Q) and ram(after that 4GB upgrade).

I say try the game on your current setup after you do the memory upgrade and see how it runs before you spend money that you don't need to.
 
I did notice my computer does pass all the requirements but I wanted to upgrade the GPU to 1gig. I will have to weigh my options on this. I have a feeling i might get bottlenecked to 20-30 fps when I should be getting high 40-60's.


I do plan to build a new computer around Jan of next year. So maybe ill save the money and wait. However 130 dollars for a video card upgrade is not that bad. Problem with guild wars is everyone is having diff requirements. I want to be able to run medium on it. Hopefully GW2 will be able to fix this problem since it seems the right normal setup for this game is an i5 2500k/ Gt500 + GPU's/ 8gig DDR3.
 
Well I'd suggest something from $100-$120 if you want a little upgrade, like this card. This graphics card should easily give you medium graphics.
 
ok just purchased this :)

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^^ NICE WORK! Wow, that's great. I was chasing a 460 for a friend, but the cheapest I can get it is $120, and it's a stock cooler which kinda sucks.
 
^^ I'm in Australia mate, and it costs to much for a courier to ship it over unless I buy a large amount of parts from Newegg. Thanks though.

Also, might wanna watch your grammar, and type 'one' instead of '1'. 👍 1 iz look liek txt speek.
 

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