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My system
: CPU E6850 3GHZ, Ram 4 GB 1066Mhz, mobo Asus P5KC, PSU Zalman 600W, Samsung 22'',windows xp SP2.

I will sell my vga card XFX GTX 260 xxx edition for 220€, to buy a GTX 285. My question is: My mobo supports PCI-E 1 and the new card is PCI-E 2. Will i have problem with the bandwith? I mean half of the power of the card will be lost?

P.S. 1 sorry for my poor english

P.S. 2 am i see big difference between the 2 cards. The upgrade will cost me 100€.

P.S. 3 My PSU Zalman 600W is enough for this card?

Thank you, i am waiting your opinions!

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A) Its ok most of us cant be arsed to spell properly.
B) You'll see a marginal increase but i dont think its worth a 100euros.
C) Your Psu fine to handle it.
D) Its up to you and i wish you the best of luck

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^+1. It's definitely not worth 100€.

Reply to Avenger_K

try from 260 to 295GTX

Reply to Milos-stancene

His GTX260 is already well overclocked, so it`d be more like going from a GTX280 to a GTX285...Totally pointless waste of money.

Reply to coozie7

both cards are PCI-E 2.0 standard and compatible with 1.0 if you are able to handle GTX260 then might as well go with the rest get the GTX 295

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you got 1680x1050 resolution? your GTX260 its one supercharge card for this resolution

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goonting wrote :

you got 1680x1050 resolution? your GTX260 its one supercharge card for this resolution

Not really....I have a eVGA GTX260 216 55nm at 740/1080 and Crysis gets a solid 40fps at 1680x1050 so it's not really overkill per say, but he wont' see any major increases until he goes for a GTX295.

Reply to brendano257

Well i play at 1680X1050 all in very high details and i have over 45 fps. Only in Crysis i get 37 fps.

The reason i post this thread is if my mobo will bottleneck my card because its PCI-E 1 and the card is PCI-E 2.
Also i am only give 100€ for this upgrade.

From your answers maybe i will keep my XFX GTX 260 xxx vga card.

P.S. sorry for my poor english
;-)

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