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Posted: 4/15/2014 4:49:23 PM EDT
I have a computer that was built way back around 2009 and I wanted to throw in a better graphics card but I cannot confirm that the PCI slot will handle it.
350w Psu
Motherboard Intel D79951-409
Core 2 quad

From what this is saying the board only supports PCIe 1.1 but the cards today are all 3.0.

This is the card I was hoping to use Nvidia

Can anyone help?
Link Posted: 4/15/2014 4:54:59 PM EDT
[#1]
Your power supply isnt rated for the card either.

1.0 will be a bottleneck, I wouldn't gamble.
Link Posted: 4/15/2014 5:11:17 PM EDT
[#2]
It looks like that MB has a PCIE x 16 connector.

But as the poster above pointed out that GPU calls for a minimum 400W power supply.
Link Posted: 4/15/2014 5:31:39 PM EDT
[#3]
Yes I just found that on pny's site I was looking at Nvidia's that is only 300w for some reason so if i went to the evga that would be fixed.
Link Posted: 4/15/2014 5:50:24 PM EDT
[#4]
Quoted:
I have a computer that was built way back around 2009 and I wanted to throw in a better graphics card but I cannot confirm that the PCI slot will handle it.
350w Psu
Motherboard Intel D79951-409
Core 2 quad

From what this is saying the board only supports PCIe 1.1 but the cards today are all 3.0.

This is the card I was hoping to use Nvidia

Can anyone help?
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Your cpu will bottleneck the gpu.
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