- Apr 5, 2013
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I have a motherboard problem and some questions.
My motherboard is a Biostar Z77A, the reason I bought the board was because of an extreme price cut and a bundled 8gb stick of Corsair Vengeance RAM ($70 for all of it). Since then I have been slowly improving my PC whenever I find really good deals. Recently I replaced my Asus AMD HD 7850 with a Zotac OC GTX 780. Apparently when I removed my old GPU I damaged the PCIe 3.0 slot and was forced to put my new GPU in a 2.0 slot.
My questions are:
How much performance am I losing putting a GTX 780 in a PCIe 2.0 slot? I have read wildly different claims on the internet and I was hoping to find a little more clarity, perhaps a link to an actual benchmark or something testing the difference.
What would some of you recommend as a replacement board for $100 or less? Clearly I bought this original board on a tight budget and I want something a little more up to the task. Currently I'm loving the 780, it's still a major improvement and I'm not in a rush to re build.
Specs:
i5 3570K
Biostar Z77A mobo
Zotac GTX 780
8gb (1600) Corsair Vengeance RAM
Corsair TX650W PSU
My motherboard is a Biostar Z77A, the reason I bought the board was because of an extreme price cut and a bundled 8gb stick of Corsair Vengeance RAM ($70 for all of it). Since then I have been slowly improving my PC whenever I find really good deals. Recently I replaced my Asus AMD HD 7850 with a Zotac OC GTX 780. Apparently when I removed my old GPU I damaged the PCIe 3.0 slot and was forced to put my new GPU in a 2.0 slot.
My questions are:
How much performance am I losing putting a GTX 780 in a PCIe 2.0 slot? I have read wildly different claims on the internet and I was hoping to find a little more clarity, perhaps a link to an actual benchmark or something testing the difference.
What would some of you recommend as a replacement board for $100 or less? Clearly I bought this original board on a tight budget and I want something a little more up to the task. Currently I'm loving the 780, it's still a major improvement and I'm not in a rush to re build.
Specs:
i5 3570K
Biostar Z77A mobo
Zotac GTX 780
8gb (1600) Corsair Vengeance RAM
Corsair TX650W PSU
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