[Q] hd 7770 + pci ex 3.0 or 650 ti + pci ex 2.0

kautilya0

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hi
i am on a new build i was wondering wether i should take an ivy bridge cpu (i5 3330) + hd7770 for pci e 3.0

or gt 650 + sandy bridge (g630) which would give better performance. as i have a limited budget
 
Get the i5 3330 and the 7770, not cause of the pcie 3.0 support(performance difference in null 3.0 vs 2.0), but cause of the other cpu is a really weak cpu vs a good quadcore.
Also not much difference between the two cards.
You could get better performance in some games with the G630+650 ti, but in the future if you want another card, you just swap the card, in the other suggestion, you'll need to swap both the card and cpu.
 

darksparten

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Isn't G630 like a Pentium? The Ivy+7770 is MUCH better IMO.

BTW 2.0 vs 3.0 makes next to no difference right now, even the high end dual CPUs can't saturate a 2.0 connection, in fact the upcoming 7970x2 is limited to the 2.0 PCie interface for simplicity, and that's fine because it can't even max out a 2.0 connection, even as a dual card. The only differences are I'd assume latency and different speeds because of the different processors.