PCI-express 2. but do I need PCI-E 3.

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whyareyoucame

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Running into a snag while trying to upgrade my video card. My needs are a GTX 600 or better but my dumb motherboard only supports PCI-E 2.0. Am I stuck shopping for a new mother board that has PCI-E 3.0?
 
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Benchmarks and tests have conclusively shown that PCIe 3.0 , despite having much greater Bandwidth is still not utilized by some of the highest end GPU's.
The performance gains are negligible, and 3.0 GPU's are backwards compatible with 2.0 lanes, so you will be ok either way.

Hope i've helped :)
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Conor17777

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Benchmarks and tests have conclusively shown that PCIe 3.0 , despite having much greater Bandwidth is still not utilized by some of the highest end GPU's.
The performance gains are negligible, and 3.0 GPU's are backwards compatible with 2.0 lanes, so you will be ok either way.

Hope i've helped :)
 
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