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 Posted: Sun, 28th Nov 2010 21:43 Post subject: GFX uprade |
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I'm thinking of buying a 470GTX (they're dirt cheap right now, around 200€), thing is I'm unsure how much of a bottleneck my mobo is. The card is PCI-E 2 (or 2.1 can't remember) but my mobo only has PCI-E 1.
So I was wondering how much of a bottleneck this would be and is it a worthy card for 200€?
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Werelds
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| Posted: Sun, 28th Nov 2010 21:54 Post subject: |
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It should be fine. PCI-E 1.0 x16 has the same bandwidth as PCI-E 2.0 x8, and that's been proven to cost about 1% performance, so nothing noticeable. And yeah, at 200 euros the 470 is an excellent buy, it'll last you half a decade or so, because that's when MS will be done milking the 360 
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| Posted: Sun, 28th Nov 2010 22:15 Post subject: |
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Hehe, sweet....
Thanks for the answer. 
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| Posted: Sun, 28th Nov 2010 22:38 Post subject: |
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Hmmm, I'm looking at benchmarks on this card and it's not much of an improvement in framerates over my GTX285... o.O
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Werelds
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| Posted: Sun, 28th Nov 2010 22:57 Post subject: |
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Depends on the game, in anything graphically taxing it should be quite a big difference at roughly the same temperature/power consumption.
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