I was thinking about upgrading from my current video card to a geforce gtx 770, but after buying it I found out my motherboard is not compatible with it. So I ended up returning it. My question is should I wait to upgrade? Am I going to have to upgrade my motherboard soon anyway? My motherboard is an msi Z68A-GD65 (G3). I was hoping to be able to just upgrade my video card because my price range right now is around 350-400$. Any input would help tremendously.
Should I upgrade from 560ti or wait?
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just checked, it ahs the neccesary slots and stuff for the gpu. pci 2.0 and 3.0 are backwards compatible, and theres no difference between the two (cards havent maxed out 2.0s specs yet).
as for the cpu, any i5 or i7 in it should be fine, no bottleneck should occur
as for the cpu, any i5 or i7 in it should be fine, no bottleneck should occur
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A BIOS update might fix a compatibility issue. Not sure how comfortable you feel about flashing your BIOS though.
I tried the card in another computer before I returned it and it booted up fine no problem. And that computer has almost the same set up as my own except for the motherboard. It has the same psu and gpu amd everything. When I contacted msi they told me "make sure the video card has legacy bios and not UEFI bios" and offered no info beyond that, so im guessing its a bios compatibility problem.
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