MSI GAMING 3 and AMD Radeon R9 Nano

rainersxd

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Greetings!
I believe that I have an absurd question but I couldn't find the answer on the manufacturers page so I am here!

My question: Does MSI GAMING 3 motherboard support AMD Radeon R9 Nano graphics card (and if it supports GTX 1080)? I couldn't find that it could in the VGA support list.

Edit: Now I start to think. It would be logical that it ain't there cause these cards doesn't have an VGA slot but still this question troubles me. I'm very worried that when I'll buy there could be a problem that these components won't work together.

Thanks!
 
Solution
The GTX 1080 as well as R9 Nano are both PCI-E 3.0 cards and not VGA cards... Any Motherboard including an MSI H170 / B150 / Z170 Gaming 3, with an X8/X16 PCI-E slot will support both the 1080 as well as R9 Nano..

Anurag20

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The GTX 1080 as well as R9 Nano are both PCI-E 3.0 cards and not VGA cards... Any Motherboard including an MSI H170 / B150 / Z170 Gaming 3, with an X8/X16 PCI-E slot will support both the 1080 as well as R9 Nano..
 
Solution
Looks like MSI haven't updated those specs, the Gaming 3 was released a while before either the R9 Nano and GTX10xx cards came out!
As the others have said, it'll work just fine with either card (well my Gaming 3/R9 Nano is doing fine anyway ;) ) so no worries there.
Just a point on the cards mentioned: The R9 Nano is a decent card but it's a long way short of the GTX1080 in performance and you'll need a big or fast monitor to really justify either.