Gigabyte/asus compatibility issues

[Mrlolimaster]

I went around in my local stores I wanted to get a gigabyte b560m aorus elite motherboard and an ASUS TUF gaming gtx 1660 super graphics card and they are telling me you can't use an ASUS card with a gigabyte motherboard although pc part picker didn't give me issues, is that true ??

[C2dan88]

Absolute bollocks.

 

Any mobo with a pci-e x16 slot version 1,2,3,4 will work with any gpu on the market today

[kb5zue]

There must have been a reason they would tell you something so stupid.  Maybe one of the items on sale or something and they were doing  their best to up-sale you but either way it is still stupid.  If what they said were true, then I would be in a world of hurt cuz I have an Asus mobo, an Asus GPU, Corsair ram, a Cooler-Master PSU and Samsung drives and have no clue who made the fans I am running, sort of a hodge-podge mix of fans.

[RONOTHAN##]

No idea what they're talking about. While I don't recommend Gigabyte motherboards (a variety of reasons I won't get into), they aren't bad enough to where they won't work with another brand of GPU. I've used Gigabyte GPUs in ASUS motherboards, EVGA GPUs in ASRock motherboards, MSI GPUs in Gigabyte motherboards, all without issues. You might get some consistency with RGB software, but even then it isn't that big of a deal that it would affect anything. PCIe is great, and pretty much if it fits in the slot, it will work thanks to all the forwards and backwards compatibility. 

[Analog]

If someone was to tell me this, I would seriously consider not buying from that store... But seriously, this is why shopping online is usually preferred. This way you can avoid uneducated  and at the same time pushy sales reps. 

 

To the question at hand, as it was already mentioned, compatibility stems from the standard a specific component uses in order to connect to another component. In this case the graphics card uses a variation of the PCIe interface (whi generation exactly is besides the point due to backwards compatibility) and if a motherboard has this same interface, said graphics card can be plugged it and it will work. 

[narrdarr]

it's fine to use together. 

[Middcore]

The people who run this store are either idiots or deliberately lying to you, perhaps in an effort to get you to buy something more expensive. Take your business elsewhere.