- Mar 22, 2013
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Hi, My girlfriends been using my old rig, and the graphics card recently conked out on her. We're looking at getting her a new set up for Christmas, but in the mean time we wanna buy a card to see her through.
The problem is its obviously an older motherboard (G41mx-k 2.0) and the processor is starting to show its age too (q9550) - I don't want to buy something that'd be incompatible with the mother board or that the processor would bottleneck anyway.
I've read that newer card will work in 1* PCIe x16, but not at full capacity.
So what would be absolute best card to buy for the rig to get decent value out of it (gaming and rendering wise) until we get a whole new system later on?
The problem is its obviously an older motherboard (G41mx-k 2.0) and the processor is starting to show its age too (q9550) - I don't want to buy something that'd be incompatible with the mother board or that the processor would bottleneck anyway.
I've read that newer card will work in 1* PCIe x16, but not at full capacity.
So what would be absolute best card to buy for the rig to get decent value out of it (gaming and rendering wise) until we get a whole new system later on?
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