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Will this Motherboard work?

J_DeMan
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My bro ran into a GPU/Motherboard compatibility issue(See thread) and he needs a new motherboard.

 

Important specs:

MB: GIGABYTE GA-B75M-D3H

CPU: i7-2600

PSU: DELTA DPS-460DB-3

GPU: EVGA 960

RAM: Samsung DDR3 2gb 1333 x4

 

My concerns:

The psu only has 4-pin 12v CPU power and the Motherboard has a 8-pin CPU power socket. Will leaving 4 pins unoccupied work?

 

The i7-2600 only supports PCI 2 and the MB has a PCI 3 slot. Will the PCI 3 slot just run at PCI 2 speed and will this limit the 960?

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PCI slots are backwards compatible meaning the slot should just run at 2.0 speeds and its unlikely it will not limit a 960.

 

and only 2GB of RAM? Thats going to be an issue.

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PCI slots are backwards compatible meaning the slot should just run at 2.0 speeds and its unlikely it will limit a 960.

 

and only 2GB of RAM? Thats going to be an issue.

Sorry, forgot to mention there is 4 sticks :P.

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Sorry, forgot to mention there is 4 sticks :P.

oh ok, that makes it much better :)

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Home Server (Unraid OS) - Ryzen 2700x | 48GB 3200mhz |  EVGA 1060 6GB | 6TB SSD Cache [3x2TB] | 66TB HDD [11x6TB]

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