Radeon RX 480 Nitro+ 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card problem?

[Necessitor]

Got a friend who wants to put a 'Radeon RX 480 Nitro+ 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card' into his pc.

He has a Asus M3A78-EM motherboard and a AMD Phenom 2x4 940 3.00GHZ cpu.

Is this a good idea or will there be ter-rouble?

 

[AlamoX]

the mobo is pci-e 2.0, so he should have no problem if his power supply is over 400watt.

 

[RavenXXX2]

Joking aside it should be fine with a decent 500watt PSU.

 

[AllBodies]

I'd advise your friend to go for the £199.99 4GB version of the card.

Their CPU is too old to properly feed a graphics card this powerful, and 4GB will be fine for 1920x1080 and below for a couple more years.

 

[Marine-RX179]

That CPU would struggle to tap utilize even 50% of the performance of that card. And also as others already pointed out, it's also depending on if his PC has a good quality PSU.

 

[Bantu]

The 199.99 version is where it's at with that PC.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/sapp...ddr5-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-37d-sp.html

What is the current graphics card in there?

 

[KillBoY_UK]

Got a friend who wants to put a 'Radeon RX 480 Nitro+ 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card' into his pc.

He has a Asus M3A78-EM motherboard and a AMD Phenom 2x4 940 3.00GHZ cpu.

Is this a good idea or will there be ter-rouble?

Should work fine if the PSU is of reasonable quality. The main issue your mate will have is the weak CPU holding the card back badly.

 

[z10m]

Im running my overclocked RX 480 with upped power limit on 350W power supply no problem.
But that's only with i3 4330 although I got i7 on the way as the i3 is bottlenecking it in many games so we'll see if the power supply can keep up with that.

 

[Necessitor]

Brilliant. Thanks for all the help. a lot of info here.
This is the original post that brought about my seeking help, btw.
http://thenitwitts.enjin.com/forum/page/1/m/28206608/viewthread/27295925-new-pc-specsany-ideas
He wanted to update his pc to be able to play Titanfall 2 reasonably well.
I was looking out for a card to update from my i5 4670K/R9 280X/16MB pc as well and I just told him about the Nitro 480 as a possible solution.

Nice friendly helpful forum you got here.

 

[pandem0nium]

I'd overclock that p ii as much as possible if he's intent on keeping it.

 

[pandem0nium]

I would double check that the card supports legacy bios before buying.