[ARCHIVED THREAD] - GPU upgrade help

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?

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.

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.

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.

Posted: 4/15/2014 5:50:24 PM EDT

[#4]

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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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