I want to buy GTX 660 and I dont know if it will work on my Motherboard ?!

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So curently I have GTS 250 on my motherboard Gigabyte - P41T-D3P, and everything is good and I dont have any problems... But I want to upgrade to GTX 660 and I dont know will everething be ok and does my motherboard support GTX 660 ?!
Also I want you to know that I bought Radeon HD5870 some time before and it didnt work, fan did, but no image on monitor, so I gave back seller his gpu, and thats why Im "scared" to buy this one, Im afraid that same thing will happend...
So.. My questions are these:
1) Will my Motherboard support / is it compatible with GTX 660 ?!
2) Was my Motherboard compatible with Radeon HD5870 or was it not ?!

MY COMPONENTs :
Motherboard: Gigabyte P41T-D3P (with PCIe 16x 1.1)
Current GPU: GTS 250
Wanted GPU: GTX 660
CPU: Intel Xeon E5450 3.0 Ghz
PSU: RaidMax 500W (80% eff.)
Hitachi 500 Gb HDD + Maxtor 160 Gb HDD
8Gb ddr3 RAM
Monitor 19 inch DELL (1280x1024)
Windows 7 (64bit)
 
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As I said in my first answer, it's close. Worst case scenario, it will limit you a little. If you really don't want to upgrade and spend a few money for a good PSU, just use this one. Any decent upgrade you take for a GPU will require the same power for the performance so all you can do is try it. The motherboard allows you to use the 660 and it's the biggest/cheapest upgrade you can make to get much better performance on your system.

Otherwise, get new motherboard, new CPU, new GPU and new PSU.
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It has PCI-E 16x so it works and won't even lose performance.
The 5870 should also work.

You only lose performance if your bandwidth speed of the GPU is higher

Base Clock Speed: PCIe 3.0 = 8.0GHz, PCIe 2.0 = 5.0GHz, PCIe 1.1 = 2.5GHz
Data Rate: PCIe 3.0 = 1000MB/s, PCIe 2.0 = 500MB/s, PCIe 1.1 = 250MB/s
Total Bandwidth: (x16 link): PCIe 3.0 = 32GB/s, PCIe 2.0 = 16GB/s, PCIe 1.1 = 8GB/s
Data Transfer Rate: PCIe 3.0 = 8.0GT/s, PCIe 2.0= 5.0GT/s, PCIe 1.1 = 2.5GT/s
 
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The reason your hd 5870 didn't work is because of the crappy raidmax psu that couldn't handle the extra power draw.
 
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Your motherboard must have a PCI Express X16 slot.
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Get a Corsair CX 500. Great affordable 80+ PSU. I purchased mine on sale for 40 bucks. No coil wines or deficiencies like you soon experience with cheap PSUs. I have had to use cheap power supplies on cheap builds just to get them going, and I do not recommend anything but a good brand. Also, better power supplies can handle more power draw at a longer lifetime.
 
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As I said in my first answer, it's close. Worst case scenario, it will limit you a little. If you really don't want to upgrade and spend a few money for a good PSU, just use this one. Any decent upgrade you take for a GPU will require the same power for the performance so all you can do is try it. The motherboard allows you to use the 660 and it's the biggest/cheapest upgrade you can make to get much better performance on your system.

Otherwise, get new motherboard, new CPU, new GPU and new PSU.
 
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For example I had an old unused 780 and I placed it in my older i5 system even tho I don't even have 16x PCI-E and the PSU is probably cheap and ~500W. Yet the performance increase is huge even if my GPU runs at least 10% slower due to PCI-E connection.
 
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