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Older motherboard compatibility with Graphics Cards
I have an older motherboard and RAM, both of my GTX-280's died at the same time and I'm having an issue finding a compatibility list with my older components. The RAM and board still function fine my issue is figuring out a newer video card. These are my specs as I remember them.

Intel LGA 775 Q9550 @ 2.83 Ghz
ASUS Rampage Formula http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/RAMPAGE_FORMULA/overvi...
4 GB Corsair Dominator DDR2 RAM @ 1066 Ghz
750W Corsair psu

I had dual BFG GTX-280's. Had this since late 2008 and would like to keep it running til I'm done with school next year. Any help is appreciated.
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a c 155 U Graphics card
a c 149 V Motherboard
September 25, 2014 12:07:31 AM

Tzadqiel said:
Thanks for the info guys. Thinking of this card as a for now replacement (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...). Hopefully I can get my computer to do a VGA boot so I can get the Vista drivers.


Good card, you can however get a better one for the same price, ie, R7 260X:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

Eeither of the 2, 260X being my recommendation as its slightly better :) 
a b U Graphics card
a b V Motherboard
September 24, 2014 11:10:37 AM

With that board ANY modern graphics card will work fine as they are mostly PCIe 3.0. You board has PCIe 2.0 but 3.0 is perfectly backwards compatible and you won't notice any real difference. Therefore, just get any video card you want.

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a c 155 U Graphics card
a c 149 V Motherboard
September 24, 2014 11:08:39 AM

The board would support any new GPU as PCIe is backwards compatible and there's no gain of 3.0 over 2.0 whatsoever. The best you should go for, looking at the CPU, however, would be GTX 750 Ti, or else the CPU would bottleneck.

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