Motherboard Question

[benthegreat17]

Hello!

 

Is the ASUS Z97-P Motherboard compatable with...

 

An ASUS GTX 770 CU II OC Graphics Card?

 

Any help is appreciated!

 

- Benjamin

[nj4ck]

Does it have a PCI-E slot? Yes. Therefore, it is compatible with any GPU from AMD or Nvidia.

[Clyne]

It will be compatible because it has a pci express x16 slot and the gpu is a pci express x16 graphics card. 

[benthegreat17]

Does it have a PCI-E slot? Yes. Therefore, it is compatible with any GPU from AMD or Nvidia.

 

Thanks for the help! I never understood how the compatibility worked with GPU's and Motherboards. But I get it now! Thanks again!   

[Blue Gummy]

Thanks for the help! I never understood how the compatibility worked with GPU's and Motherboards. But I get it now! Thanks again!   

With motherboards there are a few different expansion ports that are considered standard.

There's PCI, the oldest standard slot I'm going to be talking about, AGP and PCI-E.

PCI is an old standard that is usually used by old net expansion cards or sound cards. They look like this " http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Pci-slots.jpg " .

You'll sometimes see PCI on newer motherboards, but in general the are getting outfaced by PCI-E.

AGP is the old standard for graphics card and is basically dead now. Looks something like this " http://www.bmg-informatique.com/docs/bien_choisir/carte_graphique_im/clip_image002_0000.jpg "

PCI-E is the newest and fastest standard. PCI-E slots comes in a few different sizes (physical sizes) as you can see in this pictures " http://blog.duropc.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/PCIe-slots.gif ".

Nearly all graphics cards now adays use PCI-E 16x slots (that's the full sized slot). A smaller card size, for example a PCI-E 1x card "http://img.techpowerup.org/090610/network.jpg"  can fit in a full length PCI-E 16x slot with no problems. But it will only run at PCI-E 1x speed.

 

There are also different generations of the PCI-E slots. Generation 1 to 3.

Note that any gen 1. card can fit in a gen 3. slot, and vise versa, any gen 3. card can fit into a gen 1. slot.

So the generations are intercompatible, which means, you don't have to think about it!  

Although you should know that the higher the gen number of the slot, the more bandwidth the graphics card has available, if the graphics card is the same gen or higher.

So for example a gen 3. graphics card will fit and run in gen 1. PCI-E slot, but it will only run at gen 1. speed. This can cause bottlenecks with some of the newest GPU's. 

 

If a graphics card doesn't work with your motherboard it's most likely a problem with the BIOS. Update the BIOS and then there should be no problem.

So what did we learnt from all of this? If you can jam it into the hole then it will most likely work http://imgur.com/oJEH8?tags ~

 

That became quite a post.... Ah well, can't be bothered to delete it.