Can a old Mb decrease gaming performance on a Gtx 1080?

killastrra

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Gtx 1080 with my i7 4790 is under performing along with the same brand 12gb ram. Wondering if its the mb as its very old with a brand new card
 
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Na it probably a software or power issue. Try uninstall the drivers then use DDU to remove the old config. Restart and download the newest drivers and reinstall.

Erifyerg

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Unless you under clock your processor, which I doubt, The only limitation would be if you picked a board with PCI-Express 2.0 at the time, but really this only affects having higher resolutions or more monitors hooked up for multi-rendering(4k will be stressed a bit). Your processor at base clock will not bottleneck the performance of a 1080, and you should be fine with any 500W PSU (which most people have) if you are crazy enough to get an AMP EXTREME! card or something like that.