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Old 09-20-2015, 01:30 AM   #4201
iam_dan
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Originally Posted by jcmaz View Post
Nope you don't have to upgrade your mobo to use PCI-E 3.0 video cards unless you are going for epic gaming builds with SLI/Tri-SLI/XFIRE. Why? Because multiple video cards could use up all the bandwidth provided by PCI-E 2.0 under high resolution.

However, there's no need to upgrade if you are just going for a single card solution.

What are the specs to your PC and what do you plan on upgrading your GPU to?

I have a pretty old setup --

AMD Radeon HD 6670 1gb
AMD FX-6100
Gigabyte 970A-DS3
Crucial M4 SSD
Thermaltake TR2 600w
G.Skill Ripjaw DDR3 8gb

I'm thinking about upgrading the video card to a single GTX 960 (somewhere around $200-$300 budget), and thought I had to upgrade the mobo & cpu too... but ideally, I'd like to put that off until the end of the year
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