Will i be held back?

[MLG Doge]

I am thinking of putting a R9 280 in a Asrock H81M Board.

 

The board has a PCI-E gen 2.0 and i want to know if and what it'll do to hold back my GPU

[79wjd]

no, PCIE 2.0 won't bottleneck ANY current cards 

[Oisin Maguire]

not the pci-e interface thats for sure, what else is in your build 

[SkimmyMcG]

Nope, like djdwosk97 said, no PCI-E won't bottleneck any current cards.

[Speedbird]

I am thinking of putting a R9 280 in a Asrock H81M Board.

 

The board has a PCI-E gen 2.0 and i want to know if and what it'll do to hold back my GPU

No.

[MLG Doge]

not the pci-e interface thats for sure, what else is in your build 

I3-4130

8GB RAM 

1TB Barracuda

CX600w

[i_build_nanosuits]

nevermind sorry

[Oisin Maguire]

I3-4130

8GB RAM 

1TB Barracuda

CX600w

that lovely 4130 would be most likely your limiting factor(depending on what you do), I would have went for an amd fx 8320 if i was you

[i_build_nanosuits]

that lovely 4130 would be most likely your limiting factor(depending on what you do), I would have went for an amd fx 8320 if i was you

the core i3-4130 is better at playing games than an overclocked FX CPU, this has been proved over and over again...

[Oisin Maguire]

the core i3-4130 is better at playing games than an overclocked FX CPU, this has been proved over and over again...

That would only be true for single threaded games and the way games are becoming multicore parallelised more smaller cores makes more and more sense, just encase you think im an amd fan boy or anything im on the X79 chipset for my own uses and my work pc is an fx 8320 as it makes perfect sense since im running some sexy fortran code

[i_build_nanosuits]

That would only be true for single threaded games and the way games are becoming multicore parallelised more smaller cores makes more and more sense, just encase you think im an amd fan boy or anything im on the X79 chipset for my own uses and my work pc is an fx 8320 as it makes perfect sense since im running some sexy fortran code

his core i3 gives him an upgrade path to an i5 or i7 without changing motherboard if he needs more performance...what do you do once you need more performance with a AM3 board?

Also, even if games do get more and more multi-threaded they still have a dominant main thread that is slowed down by the weak AMD cores so the results in the end are not better.

[Oisin Maguire]

his core i3 gives him an upgrade path to an i5 or i7 without changing motherboard if he needs more performance...what do you do once you need more performance with a AM3 board?

Also, even if games do get more and more multi-threaded they still have a dominant main thread that is slowed down by the weak AMD cores so the results in the end are not better.

an upgrade path that no one ever takes and how often has intel changed its chipsets and its sockets do I need to mention that even lga 2011 has 2 different types then there 1150 1155 1366 do I keep going, dont forget that half the die on the i3 wont be used since he is using dedicated graphics so its just a waste, and since everything is heading to an opencl standard even for games this just makes everything onto a better standard and knowing x86 isnt going to be the same over the next few years as arm cores get more and more attention those weaker cores are fine, you may as well be saying streams cores are shit compared to cuda cores yet there both still competing on the gaming side and I got both in my rig 

[79wjd]

an upgrade path that no one ever takes and how often has intel changed its chipsets and its sockets do I need to mention that even lga 2011 has 2 different types then there 1150 1155 1366 do I keep going, dont forget that half the die on the i3 wont be used since he is using dedicated graphics so its just a waste, and since everything is heading to an opencl standard even for games this just makes everything onto a better standard and knowing x86 isnt going to be the same over the next few years as arm cores get more and more attention those weaker cores are fine, you may as well be saying streams cores are shit compared to cuda cores yet there both still competing on the gaming side and I got both in my rig 

ARM isn't going to be replacing x86 on any actual computer cpu (in the future....techcanilly anything could happen.....but by the time x86 is replaced, even a 5960x will be a toy in comparison). 

 

And the upgrade path is there...an i3 can be upgraded to an i7, vastly increasing performance. And the fact that "half the die is wasted" is irrelevant if performance is better. Also, how does OpenCL have anything to do with AMD cpus? 

[Oisin Maguire]

ARM isn't going to be replacing x86 on any actual computer cpu (in the future....techcanilly anything could happen.....but by the time x86 is replaced, even a 5960x will be a toy in comparison). 

 

And the upgrade path is there...an i3 can be upgraded to an i7, vastly increasing performance. And the fact that "half the die is wasted" is irrelevant if performance is better. 

I didnt say it was replacing it, just that the opencl standard uses smaller cores just fine and by the time the person wants an upgrade how many changes will intel have made which means buying from ebay at best, ive never even heard of someone replacing there cpu after they bought and built a system it makes sense to build a newer system by then becauses of the amount of changes that happen

[79wjd]

I didnt say it was replacing it, just that the opencl standard uses smaller cores just fine and by the time the person wants an upgrade how many changes will intel have made which means buying from ebay at best, ive never even heard of someone replacing there cpu after they bought and built a system it makes sense to build a newer system by then becauses of the amount of changes that happen

A lot of people go with something like an i3 and then upgrade to an i7 when they can afford it. 

 

And you do realize programs are written VERY differently for ARM and x86? I.e. an ARM version of a program is a stripped down x86 version -- programs that are running on x86 platforms now won't be optimized for ARM but rather for x86. So just because ARM is more weaker cores doesn't mean development well turn in that direction. The one thing that could say development towards more weaker cores are consoles as they use many weak cores...however, most programs still benefit greatly from a single more powerful core.