Kalron Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 I was told a bitback by some other people that you need to make sure that a new GPU is compatable with your motherboard. I don't doubt that, but are most motherboards compatable with most GPUs or do I genuinely need to worry about this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3V0Lu710N Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 Well there isn't that much to look for, a motherboards needs to have atleast 1 pci express 16x slot to put your gpu in wich are those long ones, older gpu's are pci express 2.0, the newer ones are 3.0, if you put a 3.0 gpu in a 2.0 slot you lose a bit of performance but not much really, biggest concern when shopping for a gpu is your power supply since the gpu is known for requiring more wattage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Short Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 (edited) Well there isn't that much to look for, a motherboards needs to have atleast 1 pci express 16x slot to put your gpu in wich are those long ones, older gpu's are pci express 2.0, the newer ones are 3.0, if you put a 3.0 gpu in a 2.0 slot you lose a bit of performance but not much really, biggest concern when shopping for a gpu is your power supply since the gpu is known for requiring more wattage Not even, 2.0 slots aren't even fully saturated yet. Things that do effect performance would be say an x16 slot that runs at x8 (this only applies to 2.0). Edited June 23, 2014 by Short 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalron Posted June 23, 2014 Author Share Posted June 23, 2014 SO there really isn't much to worry about? I know about the PSU. Just wondering if I should worry about other things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Short Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 SO there really isn't much to worry about? I know about the PSU. Just wondering if I should worry about other things. If your board has an x16 slot 2.0 or x8 slot 3.0 you should be fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BranHorse Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 Depending on the card you get there could be an issue with case clearance. If the card is to long it might not fit in the tower. Most new enthusiast towers don't have this issue, but older and pre built cases can have issues. Nothing a saw cant fix though usually. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Short Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 (edited) Depending on the card you get there could be an issue with case clearance. If the card is to long it might not fit in the tower. Most new enthusiast towers don't have this issue, but older and pre built cases can have issues. Nothing a saw cant fix though usually. Going off his profile specs I'm guessing it's this http://www.newegg.ca...N82E16883220212 so power will likely also be an issue. Edited June 23, 2014 by Short Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BranHorse Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 Going off his profile specs I'm guessing it's this http://www.newegg.ca...N82E16883220212 so power will likely also be an issue. Clearance could be too. I think he posted a thread on this a while back. Told him the same things then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoorStar_Nutbag Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Use tomshardware.com they will let you know what parts are compatible with each other. Make sure to pay attention to part numbers. i bought a CPU/MOBO from newegg only to find out they were not compatible even though the MOBO said it would take AMD chips , ASUS would not even talk with me until i had the RIGHT 8350 AMD CPU . The one Newegg sent me was a 8350 but not the right "Part Number" for my MOBO and was not compatiable..... confusing as hell and cost me money. lesson learned. DO YOUR RESEARCH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Short Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Use tomshardware.com they will let you know what parts are compatible with each other. Make sure to pay attention to part numbers. i bought a CPU/MOBO from newegg only to find out they were not compatible even though the MOBO said it would take AMD chips , ASUS would not even talk with me until i had the RIGHT 8350 AMD CPU . The one Newegg sent me was a 8350 but not the right "Part Number" for my MOBO and was not compatiable..... confusing as hell and cost me money. lesson learned. DO YOUR RESEARCH No such thing as the "wrong cpu" if you buy an 8350 and your board is am3+ and the bios is up to date it will work, you must have gotten a bad chip or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoorStar_Nutbag Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Well that is what i thought but ASUS would not even talk with me about the MOBO until i had a 8350 with a serial number that was on the compatibility list. look up the 8350 serial number that is compatible with asus sabertooth990fx MOBO and then look at the serial number on newegg. it is different even though the board said AMD FX series ready Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Short Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 (edited) Well that is what i thought but ASUS would not even talk with me about the MOBO until i had a 8350 with a serial number that was on the compatibility list. look up the 8350 serial number that is compatible with asus sabertooth990fx MOBO and then look at the serial number on newegg. it is different even though the board said AMD FX series ready Only thing i can think of is some fx boards need to be flashed to support vishera chips, the issue is tho some boards won't boot with the older bios so you can't flash. 8350 is supported with the latest bios via asus. FX-8350(FD8350FRW8KHK,4.0GHz,8C,125W,rev.C0,AM3+) ALL 1604 Edited June 24, 2014 by Short Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoorStar_Nutbag Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 (edited) that one is supported but this is the one newegg sells.. http://www.newegg.co...3-284-_-Product different serial numbers and i did flash the bios and that did not help. ASUS told me to get the right CPU and then they would talk to me Edited June 24, 2014 by PooStar_Nutbag Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoorStar_Nutbag Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 (edited) yet is says AM3+ ready... ASUS says otherwise. trust me i got a 200$mobo i can not return and wont work with it :/ Edited June 24, 2014 by PooStar_Nutbag Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dynas Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 Ok listen. Disregard everything that anyone has said in this thread. It's not necessarily the mobo you have to worry about, it's the chipset on the mobo that you need to look into. Certain chipsets on older AMD boards won't support SLI and only Crossfire so that's a thing. Generally though, as long as there's a PCI x16 slot you'll be fine. It'd be easier to say what motherboard are you getting instead of telling every single mobo compatibility. Sidenote. If SLI is important to you get a 990x chipset or higher like 990FX. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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