GTX 970 work on Gigabyte GA-H61M-S2PV Rev 2.0 ?

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computerNeoPhyte

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Would there be enough performance boost going from a GTX 550 Ti 2GB to a GTX 970 4GB
on a Sata 2 - PCI-E x16 2.0 MOBO with 16GB Ram and a i7 2600 cpu? 1X's. 2X's increase?

Purpose: Video Editing and Compositing, Photoshop, Animation etc... Not a gamer.

I understand there will be bottlenecks and the card will not be 100% utilized but with this current hardware what can I actually expect in performance going from a 550 Ti to a 970?

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GPU: Evga 2GB GTX 550 Ti
MB: GA-H61M-S2PV Rev 2.0 - Micro ATX, Direct X 10, Sata 2 - 3/GBs
CPU: i7 2600 not sure if it is K or not.
Ram: 16 GB
HD: 3x 1 TB WD Drives NO SSD

Operating System: Windows 7 SP1 64Bit Pro AND Windows 8.1 Pro in dual boot.

I did not build this system but has been working well for 2 years.

Also if someone that has a Gigabyte G1 Gamer edition of the 970 could you tell me the exact dimensions of the card? I know the size from Gigabytes site but when I physically measure my Evga 550 Ti and compare what my tape measure says and what Evga says the specs are way off. Wondered it is was same with the G1.

Or if you have other suggestions for a video card that will work well and give some more power with the current hardware that would be great too.

Thanks.
 
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barto
Yes and that's because PCIe 2.0 isn't fully utilized. So there won't be any performance loss.

DX is dictated by the OS and rendering hardware. DX 11 is Windows 7 and the 970 supports that.
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Would there be enough? Heck yeah. The 970 is probably 3x more powerful.

And no. There won't be any bottlenecks. The CPU you have is a good CPU that will fully support the 970. The motherboard will have no affect on performance.
 
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Even though this cpu does not support PCI-E 3.0 it will still fully support this card?

Also this is a direct X 10 mobo would that have any negative impact on using this card or is that handled by the Op Sys?

I have Windows 7 64 bit Pro and Windows 8.1 in dual boot, not using SSD's due to this is a Sata 2 board that only gets up to 3 GBps and not the 6 the newer boards have.

Thanks for your answer.
 
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Thank you for your help, I appreciate it.
 
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