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Seanoog

Seanoog

Seanoog

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Hello OverClockers.

I am asking for some advice, about a possible upgrade.
My dad wishes to invest in a new GPU, more likely a new AMD 69** or 78** series card, utilizing the PCI-Express 3.

He has been looking at the following cards:
AMD 7850 1GB
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-306-SP&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=411

AMD 7770 OC 1GB
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-293-SP&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1699

His present system specification is:
Enermaz 550W PSU
DFI LanParty NF4 (PCI-Express 1.)
ATI X1800XT 2GB
AMD X2.
2GB RAM.
However my concern is he will be connecting it to, an old PCI-Express bus system, will they be compatible, or does he have to look at much older graphics cards? :confused:
 
Don't bother with the 69xx cards now. You're far better off with the newer 7 series if you want AMD.

7770 isn't worth touching, nor is the 1gb 7850. Find the extra beans and get a 2gb 7850 mate.
 
As for compatible? I highly doubt it.

Mostly because DFI are no more so there won't be any bios updates. I think it may finally be time for you to buy a new PC tbh.
 
As above anything decent will be heavily bottlenecked by that rig. Without upgrading it a 7770 is about as far as you'd want to go. Anything more would be wasted. It's seriously time to think about a whole new system.
 
Thank you guys, for your responses.
I thought as much, that the CPU/RAM would be a series bottleneck to the system.
Yes it was state of the art 7-8 years ago, but that was then...
It might be time to adapt it to a home NAS system. :cool:

My question was more about compatibility however.
Would the new standardized GFX cards utilizing PCI-E 2/3 Standards actually work in a 16X PCI-E 1 motherboard?
ie, get enough power via motherboard, not be under-volt'ed?
The main reason for wanted a new GPU is he games on a Dell 2412M, an certain games are performing poorly.

I'll forward the suggestion, of investing in a new IvyBridge i5/i7 + Aftermarket Heat-sink, 8GB Ram, GPU, PSU.
After all he wants a new SATA3 SSD (after see'ing how mine loads windows :D ), an he was going to connect it via a PCI-E adapter card. :o
 
How compatible it is comes down to whether whoever made it bothers to put out a bios to make it work.

In theory yes, it should work. DFI have been long gone now though so they certainly won't be supporting bios updates.
 
Blue160 said:
It will be backwards compatible, but obviously a PCIe 1 slot isn't going to do anything for performance!
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I always knew the older technology would have limited bandwidth.


ALXAndy said:
How compatible it is comes down to whether whoever made it bothers to put out a bios to make it work.

In theory yes, it should work. DFI have been long gone now though so they certainly won't be supporting bios updates.
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Thank you.
Simply it SHOULD work, but it WONT, simple because they can't support the hardware. Many thanks guys.

Time for an upgrade then. ;)
 
Seanoog said:
Time for an upgrade then. ;)
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Check out the Sandy Bridge Celerons and Pentiums. The Celeron G530 is a meager £30 and is as quick as a E8400 Core 2 Duo.

I had one and benched the crap out of it and it was a fighter lol.

You should be able to bag a board CPU and ram for under £100 easily. I was using a £30 MSI H61 board.
 
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