Looking to upgrade GPU

[Casey03]

Hi All,

I am looking to upgrade my GPU to a 3080 or a 3080ti. But before I do confirm this, I would like to know if my motherboard will support the GPU and not create a bottleneck on Performance.

Currently I am running:

• DEFCON 2C - Asus Z370 TUF Plus Gaming - Overclocked @ 4.70GHz with Cooler Master MasterLiquid Lite 240 Liquid CPU Cooler "240mm Radiator"
• Team Group Vulcan T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz (I will also look at upgrading this at later date to 32GB)

Does anyone know how to check if my motherboard will be an issue for performance?

If I will suffer performance hit, then I would most likely look at a whole new build and just not the GPU.

Thanks in Advance!

 

[mickyflinn]

Motherboard is fine and will run at pcie3 speed for the gpu which isn't a problem or a big performance loss.

Pcie3 v pcie4 is only couple of percent diffrence in performance.

 

[EsaT]

Motherboard has very little to do with gaming performance.
It's CPU which matters.
And with only basic six core CPUs available for that board, I would recommend forgetting that 32GB memory upgrade.
There just isn't any horsepower for running anything on background anyway and that would be throwing good money on dead end platform.

And with current GPU price situation would be very wary of buying those high end models, especially NVidia priced ones, unless you have modern resolution monitor.