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Realmanpwns

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I have a P6T LGA 1336 MotherBoard. It has 3 PCIe x16 slots. My current card is the GTX-260. This card is over 4 years old and running hot at around 96C idle. I've tried to clean but absent precision tools to open it and clean it nothing seems to help.
So I need a new card but all the new cards run on PCIe 2.0 and 3.0 x16 slots. I'm limited in funding and need a card under 100 dollars.
What card would run on this PCIe x16 slot and be efficient enough to run Starcraft 2 within my budget.

P6T LGA 1336 Motherboard
Core i7 920
12 gigs memory
800 Watt Power Supply
ATX case
Desktop
Windows 7
 
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Will there be any power issues since the bandwidth of the lanes is less in the 1.0 ? My current card uses 2 - 6 pin power connectors whereas the one you suggest only uses one 6 pin connector.
 
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No there won't be any power issues. They've just made the cards much more efficient over time.

There shouldn't be any bandwidth issues for the PCI-E x16 slot since your current card isn't much slower and has no issues.
 
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I don't get it. My current card is over 4 or 5 years old. named gtx-260 The card I looked at is gtx-650 and the specs are all higher than the specs for my old card. So how is it considered the same?

 
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I'm using this that gives a general performance comparison of cards between articles along with the 7790 article published within the last week.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107-7.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-hd-7790-bonaire-performance,3462.html

The specs don't matter much at all unless their from the same architecture. It's kind of like CPU's where a modern Sandy Bridget i5 running at 3.0 GHz will handily beat a older Pentium 4 running at 3.0 GHz.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/processor-architecture-benchmark,2974.html
Each architecture is different and will perform vastly different, for example the last gen 580's only had 512 cores but the more modern 660 Ti has 1344 to achieve the same performance but also uses less power. Those two cards also have about a 250 MHz difference is core clock (with the 580 being the lower one in the high 700's and the 660Ti in the low 1000's). See how the basic numbers don't mean much of anything if their different architectures?

You're also comparing a card that retailed for $350 new (launch price was $400 but it quickly dropped) from five years ago. They've since had two new architectures (the same one for the 3xx, Fermi for the 4xx and 5xx and kelper for the 6xx). I'd say it's not too bad having a old $350 card matched in performance by a card for about 1/3 the cost and almost half the power consumption to achieve that level of performance.
 
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