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[NOTICE] When building your PC leave room for upgrading.
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I am posting this on behalf of my own experience with PC building and upgrading
This is a friendly reminder to understand what you are buying. Specifically, Motherboards.
I decided it was time to upgrade my most recent build. I had a med quality GPU (Nvidia GT 640) and a Good AMD CPU on the build. In most cases when upgrading a GPU you usually want to upgrade your CPU to avoid bottlenecking. However,I had screwed myself by getting an FM1 motherboard. This means that I could not upgrade my CPU. And almost all new processors run on FM3 motherboards so I could not put a new one my FM1 board.
For Example: I have FM1 Motherboard and want to put a AMD FX 8 core processor. The AMD's CPU socket is AM3. If I tried installing that on my motherboard it would miserably fail.
With current CPU I have, a new gpu would cause massive bottlenecking. (And my motherboard is still PCi 2.0) So upgrading would be pretty much pointless unless I got a new processor to go with it.
Instead of having a $250 upgrade, I ended up with a $350 upgrade due to lack of knowledge of my hardware.
TLDR; Do some research on the parts you are getting to build your pc. (If you plan on upgrading it in the future) Or else it might cost you a few extra hundred bucks to upgrade it.
I have 2+ years in experience of building gaming pcs. If you have any questions, feel free to ask
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This is a friendly reminder to understand what you are buying. Specifically, Motherboards.
I decided it was time to upgrade my most recent build. I had a med quality GPU (Nvidia GT 640) and a Good AMD CPU on the build. In most cases when upgrading a GPU you usually want to upgrade your CPU to avoid bottlenecking. However,I had screwed myself by getting an FM1 motherboard. This means that I could not upgrade my CPU. And almost all new processors run on FM3 motherboards so I could not put a new one my FM1 board.
For Example: I have FM1 Motherboard and want to put a AMD FX 8 core processor. The AMD's CPU socket is AM3. If I tried installing that on my motherboard it would miserably fail.
With current CPU I have, a new gpu would cause massive bottlenecking. (And my motherboard is still PCi 2.0) So upgrading would be pretty much pointless unless I got a new processor to go with it.
Instead of having a $250 upgrade, I ended up with a $350 upgrade due to lack of knowledge of my hardware.
TLDR; Do some research on the parts you are getting to build your pc. (If you plan on upgrading it in the future) Or else it might cost you a few extra hundred bucks to upgrade it.
I have 2+ years in experience of building gaming pcs. If you have any questions, feel free to ask
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No current card can saturate PCIe 2.0, so that's not your bottleneck. Current AMD and Sandy Bridge-E CPUs don't have PCIe 3.0 controllers, but it doesn't matter.
There's also no such thing as a 939 (what I can only assume you're referring to by "AM1") board with PCIe 2.0 and I'm unsure how you would end up with a GT640 in a 939 build. Anyway, all you'd need to upgrade the CPU is a new board, new RAM (socket 939 uses DDR), and the new CPU. It's just not very expensive.
There's also no such thing as a 939 (what I can only assume you're referring to by "AM1") board with PCIe 2.0 and I'm unsure how you would end up with a GT640 in a 939 build. Anyway, all you'd need to upgrade the CPU is a new board, new RAM (socket 939 uses DDR), and the new CPU. It's just not very expensive.
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Whoops! I meant to say FM1. I had a litle brainfart there
Also the cards im looking at are PCi 3.0 and my mobo is still at pci 2.0. I know their still compatible but im sure having a pci 3.0 mobo would increase its performance
Also the cards im looking at are PCi 3.0 and my mobo is still at pci 2.0. I know their still compatible but im sure having a pci 3.0 mobo would increase its performance
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Anangrychip wrote Whoops! I meant to say FM1. I had a litle brainfart there
Also the cards im looking at are PCi 3.0 and my mobo is still at pci 2.0. I know their still compatible but im sure having a pci 3.0 mobo would increase its performance
It wouldn't at all. The performance differences are margin-of-error.
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Huh, thats surprising. I honestly thought 3.0 was better.
TIL 2.0 is better
TIL 2.0 is better
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Anangrychip wrote Huh, thats surprising. I honestly thought 3.0 was better.
TIL 2.0 is better
That's not what I was trying to say. 3.0 is better because it has more bandwidth, but it makes no difference until cards can use it, which will be some time in the future. Right now, there's no difference.
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