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September 30, 2014 8:44:57 AM

So I'm looking to build a new desktop (case is old Dell Optiplex GX240), and want to make it into a gaming desktop mainly. I'm wanting to use a GTX 780Ti 3GB in one of the PCIe 2.0 slots on a MSI 970 Gaming motherboard, and I just saw that I could do so in a post on here, but I would like to know how much the performance would be decreased if I did this? Processor is most likely going to be an AMD FX-9590 OC.

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September 30, 2014 8:57:03 AM

You will be fine. The PCIe 2.0 port shouldn't bottleneck at all. If you are buying an AMD 8 core chip, you may as well buy a FX 8320 and overclock it your self. You would save yourself around a $100. That or buy a FX 8350. The FX 8350 is cheaper and very easy to get to the 9500 series clock speeds. At the same clock speeds they are the same chips. ;) 
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October 2, 2014 6:26:43 AM

sincreator said:
You will be fine. The PCIe 2.0 port shouldn't bottleneck at all. If you are buying an AMD 8 core chip, you may as well buy a FX 8320 and overclock it your self. You would save yourself around a $100. That or buy a FX 8350. The FX 8350 is cheaper and very easy to get to the 9500 series clock speeds. At the same clock speeds they are the same chips. ;) 


Want a processor that goes above 4.5 though. Looking to make this the most badass gaming computer ever. Plus.... I have no idea how to overclock. I've heard you're supposed to go into the BIOS to overclock the processor, but I have not yet tried that on a desktop. Thanks for your input though! :D 
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October 2, 2014 6:29:09 AM

pcgaming98 said:
I don't think the performance between PCI-E 3.0 and PCI-E 2.0 will be that massive. You can always look at gaming benchmarks about it.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/320706-30-tomshardwar...

This is just a topic with a similar question, and a similar answer to mine.


Thanks! Now I just have to finalize the processor choice and decide on other adapters...
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