Will Nvidia GPU work with FM2+ Motherboard

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Greyson4450

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Hello, I have bought a new gaming PC in the last few months (specs below) I am using a Asus R5 230 2GB as the dedicated GPU and i am looking to upgrade. The problem is that i have a MSI a68hm grenade FM2+ Motherboard. I am looking for a GPU that is compatible with it. I'm thinking about upgrading to a Nvidia GTX 1080 seeing as they have dropped in price recently and all the other parts of my system are decent.

Please leave suggestions below.

• CPU: AMD A8-7650K Radeon R7
• Motherboard: MSI A68HM Grenade
• RAM: Kingston HyperX Fury 8GB (1X8GB)
• GPU: Asus R5 230 2GB [Upgrading Soon]
• HDD: Seagate 1TB SATA III 6Gb/s
• PSU: 500W PSU With 12cm Super-Silent Fan
• Case: GameMax MID ATX Tower Case Blue LEDS
• OS: Windows 10 Home
 
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Justiceinacan
1080 is going to be bottlenecked hard by your current setup, and will be overkill for a 1080p monitor or lower which I am assuming you currently have. I'd highly suggest upgrading to a more balanced system featuring a card like a Radeon RX 470/480 or GTX 1060.
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1080 is going to be bottlenecked hard by your current setup, and will be overkill for a 1080p monitor or lower which I am assuming you currently have. I'd highly suggest upgrading to a more balanced system featuring a card like a Radeon RX 470/480 or GTX 1060.
 
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Yep, and yep.
Performance of that CPU will be similar to the FX-4300. The amount of CPU BOTTLENECK will vary significantly depending on the game and settings, though a very ROUGH Guess would be that you'd get say between 50% and 100% with perhaps 75% average compared to a good Intel CPU. And yes, you can see as much as 2x the performance with the same GPU and Intel CPU that's not a mistake.

But again, it varies so much.

Recommendations are:

1) Buy a lesser GPU, such as the GTX1060 6GB or RX-480.
- you will do BETTER in many games with a GTX1080 but it's hard to recommend spending that much for the AVERAGE loss you get. In fact, if spending that much money I would SELL the entire system and start over. That's obviously not desirable.

or
2) Buy a better GPU if you think you'll upgrade that system in the next year or so. Doesn't seem likely, and then of course a top-end card will depreciate much faster so hard to recommend.

3) THIS is the graphics card I recommend:
http://pcpartpicker.com/product/hkJkcf/asus-radeon-rx-480-8gb-rog-strix-video-card-rog-strix-rx480-o8g-gaming

4) I would then carefully TWEAK every game for the optimal FPS. Start with the decision of:
a) VSYNC ON, or
b) VSYNC OFF
then tweak accordingly. AA, shadows etc so that your game smoothness etc is optimal

5) Even with a CPU bottleneck at times you'll still have a great experience. The price of the card and good value will ensure you won't lose very much when you go to sell it.

6) future DX12/Vulkan games should reduce the CPU bottleneck but eventually I'd rebuild the system.

7) RYZEN CPU's from AMD seem slightly disappointing at first, but they will improve and come closer to the Intel CPU's. I'm not saying to rebuild, but if you do in the near future then I'd wait until 2018. By then the drivers (especially SMT issue), higher OC due to more mature process node etc will help a lot.

Then I'd get a 4C/8T (i.e. similar to i7-7700K but closer to $200USD hopefully) or 6C/12T CPU depending on budget, reviews etc.
 
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The GTX1060 6GB (not 3GB) and RX-480 8GB (not 4GB) are my top two choices.

**IF IN DOUBT, go with the GTX1060 6GB Asus Strix. (IMO)**

There are PROS and CONS to both. I was recommending the GTX1060 especially to weaker CPU's due to the DX11 driver overhead however I have no access to testing to see if the newer drivers are improving the CPU efficiency issue for OLDER games (not just newer games).

Some older games may still drop to 80% of the performance with a GTX1060 6GB vs RX-480 8GB (combination of driver losses and less efficient GPU usage for older titles).

I'm fairly sure that GTX1060 will win on almost every older game except a few recent titles.

The RX-480 8GB however is a bit CHEAPER, more VRAM (currently not a big deal though I would not drop below 6GB), and pulls ahead in more recent titles optimizing for DX12/Vulkan. Don't expect miracles though but it's more "future proof" in performance IMO. I can't speak to Virtual Reality (though your CPU isn't sufficient anyway).

Given the same price I would go with the NVidia GTX1060 6GB however the RX-480 8GB is cheaper.

I prefer the Asus Strix models (RGB model like the one linked).
https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/RX_480_STRIX_OC/23.html

*Please note each game will vary differently on your system due to a CPU bottleneck which varies from minor to significant as said.

Other useful link of more RECENT TITLES (not representative of the AVERAGE game improvement)
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/73945-gtx-1060-vs-rx-480-updated-review.html

 
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"all the other parts of my system are decent."

For general purpose computing, yes they are decent. For gaming? No, you have an APU, that A8. The whole point of getting an APU is you save money by using the graphics built in to the APU. Yes you can upgrade to a separate videocard but the APU doesn't perform like a gaming CPU would perform.

The main takeaway here is that merely adding the fastest videocard doesn't automatically mean you get great performance. Balance is key. Personally, I'd go with a 1050 Ti or RX 470 4gb, at most, for that system.
 
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