Hi,
This may be a little naive, but I'm a research student with a looming threat of a thesis defense around the corner, and my desktop has suddenly conked off. I have a Gigabyte EX 58 Extreme motherboard with a Core i7 920 CPU and 24 GB DDR3 memory.
I had a Palit GTX 295 GPU, but all of a sudden, I have no display on bootup. I have followed all standard troubleshooting techniques outlined in the motherboard's manual and on the internet, including taking the card out, cleaning the copper contacts with an eraser and some isopropyl alcohol, to no avail. I have also changed the PCI Express slot in which the graphics card was inserted.
While I am going to get my motherboard and graphics card checked out in a few hours, I am looking at the possibility of buying a high end NVIDIA graphics card as my work involves the use of CUDA. So I am trying to decide between 770 Amp 2 and 780 both from Zotac. I've read that PCI Express 3 cards are backward compatible, but is this really true?
Any suggestions/advice will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
This may be a little naive, but I'm a research student with a looming threat of a thesis defense around the corner, and my desktop has suddenly conked off. I have a Gigabyte EX 58 Extreme motherboard with a Core i7 920 CPU and 24 GB DDR3 memory.
I had a Palit GTX 295 GPU, but all of a sudden, I have no display on bootup. I have followed all standard troubleshooting techniques outlined in the motherboard's manual and on the internet, including taking the card out, cleaning the copper contacts with an eraser and some isopropyl alcohol, to no avail. I have also changed the PCI Express slot in which the graphics card was inserted.
While I am going to get my motherboard and graphics card checked out in a few hours, I am looking at the possibility of buying a high end NVIDIA graphics card as my work involves the use of CUDA. So I am trying to decide between 770 Amp 2 and 780 both from Zotac. I've read that PCI Express 3 cards are backward compatible, but is this really true?
Any suggestions/advice will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!