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B450 PCIE 3.0 Motherboard on an RTX 4060 Ti; is it worth upgrading to a B550 PCIE 4.0 motherboard?

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Greetings! I've recently bought an RTX 4060 Ti to replace my broken RTX 3060 Ti. I was wondering if it would bottleneck in a B450 PCIE 3.0 motherboard paired with an AMD Ryzen 5 3600 CPU overclocked to 4.6 ghz and if it would be worth upgrading to a B550 PCIE 4.0 motherboard? I'd appreciate your comments and responses. Thanks in advance 🙂 

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1 minute ago, Arenjames said:

Greetings! I've recently bought an RTX 4060 Ti to replace my broken RTX 3060 Ti. I was wondering if it would bottleneck in a B450 PCIE 3.0 motherboard paired with an AMD Ryzen 5 3600 CPU overclocked to 4.6 ghz and if it would be worth upgrading to a B550 PCIE 4.0 motherboard? I'd appreciate your comments and responses. Thanks in advance 🙂 

Definitely not. That card can't saturate PCI-E 3.0.

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1 hour ago, 191x7 said:

Definitely not. That card can't saturate PCI-E 3.0.

It absolutely can, just like the 6600XT, it's a GPU with 8GB of VRAM and x8 PCIe bus. In some (rare) games it can lose significant amounts of performance depending on the resolution and settings used, in most cases and games it should be a minor to non-existent difference though.

 

Would it be worth upgrading to a B550 board? No, unless it's free, if you have to pay to upgrade might as well save a bit then sell the CPU with the motherboard and get a Zen 4 or Alder/Raptor Lake CPU.

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If the upgrade is very cheap, or free, then it's worth it, but if you're going to spend e.g. $150 on a board, then no, I'd keep your money for a future upgrade.

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