Getting new graphic card but still wondering will it work on my stock mobo

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BlackMoral

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Hey guys.i got asus p5g41t-ml x mobo and im planning to get amd r9 270 gddr5 card. will my mobo support the card to its full potential? if its not. pls point me to the right direction of which hardware should i upgrade? my cpu is dual core e5700 3.0ghz n i have psu with 550w . thank you in advance
 
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Hi BlackMoral,

the r9 270 GPU needs a PCIe 3.0x16 Slot that is capable of 15754 MB/s. Your board only has a PCIe 1.1x16 Slot that can transfer about 4000MB/s. The card does not need the whole PCIe3.0 potential so the performance will not suffer a lot, but you can at least expect some decrease in performance just from the board connection alone.

The PSU will be more than enough to power the new GPU, at least if it's not some kind of cheap china PSU that does not output the 550W thats printend on it.

Your CPU is the biggest Problem. I had an Athlon X2 5000+ paired with a GTX660Ti before (Should be almost the same, your cpu is a little bit faster and your choosen gpu a little bit slower). The performance suffered a lot by the CPU (Games ran at 5-10 fps in some cases like Thief or Battlefield in low Settings). The Same GPU paired with an A10 5800+ (Still not a good CPU) was doing just fine in Ultra Settings in both Games.

The only direction i could recommend to you, would be to get a new CPU/Mainboard/RAM with the GPU. To upgrade an old DualCore is not worth it anymore.
 
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was planning to get core 2 quad q6600 g0 stepping since im out of budget to get any gen4 intel for now with the amd r9 270 while still using the same mobo. how u think it will work ? by changing only cpu and gpu .
 
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It would at least be a lot better than with the E5700, but i don't have a lot of experience with the q6600 so i can't say for sure that it will work. Maybe someone else on this forum is able to help there.
 
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I thought so too. Thank for ur time :D
 
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