Old motherboard new graphics card?

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Dracneya

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So... I have a ASUS P5K Deluxe motherboard AMD just bought a Nvidia 1060 graphics card.
Will those work to its full potential or am I wasting time with the old board?
 
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kyotokid

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...thank you. Now trying to sort out the driver situation as I plan to keep the 460 I originally installed when I built the system for running the displays and use the 4 GB 760 Ti I recently acquired purely for rendering.
 
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kyotokid

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...well both cards are Nvidia the older one a GTX 460 (should have maybe prefaced that as yes, there is also an Radeon 460). The GTX 460 has only 1 GB of VRAM so pretty useless for rendering. Also I am using Iray which is CUDA based.

I used to work with Lux (Reality plugin) but they dumped development of their hybrid GPU/CPU mode and went to straight GPU or straight CPU mode rendering. Had dual HD 7950s (3 GB) I was planning on using, but by themselves, not enough VRAM to contain a full scene (and unlike Iray, if VRAM was exceeded in Lux, the process crashed rather than dumping to the CPU). I ended up uninstalling the engine, plugin (which was also pretty buggy in the Ver. 4 release) and the two cards as the cards were power hogs (295 W ea at peak load) and straight CPU mode in Lux is measured in geologic time.

The GTX 760 Ti and GTX 460 together would draw less than a single HD 7950 as the 460 would only be running the displays and thus not be driven hard.

Even 4 GB is pretty much the bare minimum, but I have to make do until (if ever) prices come back down to earth for the GTX 1070/1080.
 
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