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April 25, 2014 12:24:33 AM

My current computer :
AMD A8 5500 APU @ 3.2
8 gigs ram
600 watt power supply
Radeon HD 6670,

My question is, I'm looking to upgrade my GPU seeing as I've had it for about 3 years and its getting rather sluggish. The card I'm currently looking at is a Radeon HD 7870... My main concern is with my cpu pci slots being a 2.0 and the card being a 3.0 will I notice any form of bottle necking that is rather severe, or will it be minimal? I'm on a budget and wont be replacing any component other than my GPU.
I've also tried setting up my dual graphics option via this APU but it will not allow me to do so through the bios / UEFI, so my final option is just yanking the card out and getting a beefier one. Any help would be great, thanks.


- Bruce.

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April 25, 2014 12:41:45 AM

PCIe is backwards and forwards compatible. You will have no issue there with bottlenecks. Make sure you have the power supply to support it; I only usually recommend a good quality unit. 600W is not all that descriptive, do you have a make and model of the power supply?
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April 25, 2014 12:43:53 AM

There's really no bottleneck on Pci-e 2.0, i used to have a 7970Ghz edition running on a pci-e 2.0 lane. I've also seen some benchmarks done with a GTX680 on pci-e 2.0 vs pci-e 3.0, i think they where measuring none to 1-2fps difference at most.
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