Hardware Conflict between older Motherboard and CPU with Nvidia GTX 1070?

Strayone · Oct 14, 2016

Hi there, I have an Asus P6x58D premium motherboard and I7 960 3.2 Gig Cpu with an Nvidia GTX 580 graphics card. My graphics card is no longer able to support the system requirements I need and it is also starting to cause Windows 10 errors.

I was thinking of getting a Nvidia 1070 GTX but I have concerns it wont be able to work on my older motherboard and CPU. To update either MB or CPU would require me replacing both due to a no longer used CPU socket size (they stopped producing chips for the socket size just after I bought it). So my question is, is there any foreseeable hardware conflicts I will get if I did buy the Nvidia 1070 GTX?

Wilhem991 · Oct 14, 2016

They will work fine together. Just you will not get full power 1070 since your motherboard is PCI-e 2.0 and video card offers PCI-e 3.o (Mobo will bottleneck GPU)
But they can work together. Also what Power supply you use? I hope it is not some old and cheap because there is danger of burning Video card with cheap and old power supplies.

AqwBroders · Oct 14, 2016

I do not think you'll have any incompatibility issues however you might have issues with outdated BIOS.
And PCIe 2.0 isn't much of a difference to PCIe 3.0, maybe 2-3fps.

Strayone · Oct 14, 2016

Wilhem991 :

Hey Wilhelm, I was concerned with bottlenecking of the GPU, how bad do you believe it will be, if it severely restricted the GPU, then I may have no choice but to go smaller, or wait till i can afford a full system upgrade, as for power, I use a Corsair Gold 850 Watt modular power supply.

Strayone · Oct 14, 2016

AqwBroders :

Hey AqwBroders, i never thought about the Bios and its part in it all, it has caused me problems in the past, I'll have to keep that in mind, thanks.

Wilhem991 · Oct 14, 2016

Strayone :

It will be very little performance loss. I do not know how much exactly. About your PSU. for your current Build it is Over powered PSU. But for 1070 should work without any issue.

AqwBroders · Oct 14, 2016

Wilhem991 :

Strayone :

It will be very little performance loss. I do not know how much exactly. About your PSU. for your current Build it is Over powered PSU. But for 1070 should work without any issue.

The performance loss will be as small as almost nothing, 2-3fps as said. And also i7 960 is a powerful I7 and will have almost no bottlenecking on a 1070. Even if it's old.

Strayone · Oct 14, 2016

Wilhem991 :

Strayone :

It will be very little performance loss. I do not know how much exactly. About your PSU. for your current Build it is Over powered PSU. But for 1070 should work without any issue.

Thanks Wilhelm, yes I was told by a local computer repairer and builder when I was building my own system that I should use nothing less than 850watt, I found out later it was overpowered, i think a 650 Watt will do.

Wilhem991 · Oct 14, 2016

There is PSU calculators online so you can find out exactly how much you need and recomendation. In my opinion 500w should be enough too.

Strayone · Oct 14, 2016

AqwBroders :

Wilhem991 :

The performance loss will be as small as almost nothing, 2-3fps as said. And also i7 960 is a powerful I7 and will have almost no bottlenecking on a 1070. Even if it's old.

Nice, thanks AqwBroders, i can certainly handle 2-3fps loss, if its nothing more than that, then I should get it, I appreciate the assist from both of you, you certainly helped, thanks.

Strayone · Oct 14, 2016

Wilhem991 :

Yeah, I used them before, but was told they where unreliable, and to get the 850watt, i wont trust his advise again.

Wilhem991 · Oct 14, 2016

Strayone :

The thing or 2 about Power supplies:

How much W is important but not just that. It is important to check how much of V do you get too. Mostly in higher tier PSU is balanced for use but cheap ones are all arround.
So thats why it used to be 10 years ago you need as much as power in W as you can get

80+ certificate is good. It means you will get at least of 80%+ efficient energy use in computer power supply unit. So your PSU will not generate so much heat, and you will have less electricity bills

And ofcorse. The person who told you that you need 850w PSU scam you (I asume he sell you that PSU too) AS you can buy GPU that need a lot of power, Most modern VIdeo cards and CPUs use less wats because they are precise and well done.
Probably your PSU can be used for power up 2 Video cards and lot more hehe

Strayone · Oct 14, 2016

Wilhem991 :

Strayone :

The thing or 2 about Power supplies:

How much W is important but not just that. It is important to check how much of V do you get too. Mostly in higher tier PSU is balanced for use but cheap ones are all arround.
So thats why it used to be 10 years ago you need as much as power in W as you can get

80+ certificate is good. It means you will get at least of 80%+ efficient energy use in computer power supply unit. So your PSU will not generate so much heat, and you will have less electricity bills

And ofcorse. The person who told you that you need 850w PSU scam you (I asume he sell you that PSU too) AS you can buy GPU that need a lot of power, Most modern VIdeo cards and CPUs use less wats because they are precise and well done.
Probably your PSU can be used for power up 2 Video cards and lot more hehe

Yeah he did sell me it, although he wanted to sell me a cheaper brand, I stuck with the Corsair Gold for its 80%+ efficiency, Glad I did now.

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