Will this graphics card work with my pc?

[BenSnoop]

So I have a pc and it had a bad graphics card(some cheap low profile one) and I have seen a MSI r9 380 4gb and wondering if it will work with my pc. Answers will be highly appreciated.

 

 

Current specs:

 

CoolerMaster 480W power supply

 

Intel i7 950 (OC to 4.9Ghz) Processor

 

8gb of ram

 

Msi x58 pro motherboard

 

 

 

ASK IF THERE IS ANYTHING ELSE YOU NEED TO KNOW.

 

 

Thanks for your time.

 

 

 

[Uptivuptiz]

Yes i will work, just remember to put the GPU in to a PCIe Gen. 3 16x slot

[BenSnoop]

so will my power supply be able to handle it?

[Uptivuptiz]

1 minute ago, BenSnoop said:

so will my power supply be able to handle it?

Most likely, but i forgot to mention that you MOBO does not have a PCIe Gen 3. 16x slot. Its Gen 2 instead. What this means is nothing in your case but if your consider upgrading your pc in the future with a newer GPU i would recommend that you change out your motherboard as it can become a bottleneck. 

[BenSnoop]

so will this become obvious in benchmarks and will i get decreased framerates?

[Adreyu]

7 minutes ago, simonbyrial said:

Most likely, but i forgot to mention that you MOBO does not have a PCIe Gen 3. 16x slot. Its Gen 2 instead. What this means is nothing in your case but if your consider upgrading your pc in the future with a newer GPU i would recommend that you change out your motherboard as it can become a bottleneck. 

Well, anything faster than that is going to be heavily bottlenecked by that i7 950 lol.

[Uptivuptiz]

Just now, Adreyu said:

Well, anything faster than that is going to be heavily bottlenecked by that i7 950 lol.

Haha true 

[Adreyu]

Having said that. 4.9ghz on an i7 950? Did you feed it some sort of otherworldy steroids that can increase performance to godlike levels? lol

[Uptivuptiz]

9 minutes ago, BenSnoop said:

so will this become obvious in benchmarks and will i get decreased framerates?

If you use the R9 380 then i don't think so, but if you use a newer GPU like a GTX 970 or something similar it's gonne be bottlenecked by both the PCI lane and the CPU as Adreyu says.

 

[RadiatingLight]

Just now, simonbyrial said:

If you use the R9 380 then i don't think so, but if you use a newer GPU like a GTX 970 or something similar it's gonne be bottlenecked by both the PCI lane and the CPU as Adreyu says.

 

Not even close.

The CPU will bottleneck something high-end like a 1070 or RX 480 or even 970, but bandwith is not a bottleneck at all.

Running a GTX 1080 over a PCI-e Gen 1 X4 slot only gave it about a 30% decrease in performance.

Hell, AMD is okay with running crossfire over Gen 3 X4, which is half of a Gen 2 X16. in this case, not only does the GPU need the bandwith to talk to the CPU, but it also needs to trade textures and stuff with the other GPU.

 

the fact that it works over Gen 3 X4 is enough to confidently say that Gen 3 X4 at least is enough bandwidth.

[RadiatingLight]

14 minutes ago, BenSnoop said:

so will this become obvious in benchmarks and will i get decreased framerates?

No. Not at all.

PCI-e bandwith has not been a limitation for years now. but your CPU may bottleneck any current mid-tier or higher GPU.

[BenSnoop]

Some people have overclocked the i7 950 to 5.5 ghz, just saying.