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Motherboards/gpu Compatability


Kalron
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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.

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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

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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