I've been meaning to upgrade my 8800 GTS 512MB card for a little while to get back to using all high graphics settings at 1920x1200 with the newest games. Budget around £200.
Thinking about going for an ATI 5850 but will it be significantly hampered by using my older mobo - Gigabyte P35 DS3R? If it is I may aswell wait until I do a full upgrade.
I've tried reading up on the differences between PCI e 2.0 and PCIe 1 and get that the transfer speed is basically doubled but practically all the threads that turned up from searching were from 2007/08 and said that newer graphics cards that were 2.0 compatible didn't actually fully utilise 2.0 anyway or even PCI E at the time.
I'm guessing that's changed by now but can anyone give a rough estimate or maybe a link to some benchmarks between a high end graphics card on a PCIe 1 system compared to a pcie 2.0 system?
Rest of system - C2D Wolfdale E8200 3.0, 4 Gig ram, Tagan BZ series 700W
Thinking about going for an ATI 5850 but will it be significantly hampered by using my older mobo - Gigabyte P35 DS3R? If it is I may aswell wait until I do a full upgrade.
I've tried reading up on the differences between PCI e 2.0 and PCIe 1 and get that the transfer speed is basically doubled but practically all the threads that turned up from searching were from 2007/08 and said that newer graphics cards that were 2.0 compatible didn't actually fully utilise 2.0 anyway or even PCI E at the time.
I'm guessing that's changed by now but can anyone give a rough estimate or maybe a link to some benchmarks between a high end graphics card on a PCIe 1 system compared to a pcie 2.0 system?
Rest of system - C2D Wolfdale E8200 3.0, 4 Gig ram, Tagan BZ series 700W