Posted June 13, 2017 I have set myself the challenge of upgrading a Sandy Bridge PC (keeping same MOBO, changing everything else) and I just want help finding a graphics card for PCIe 2.0 because that's all the i7 2600k that I'm probably gonna chuck in there can support. Thanks. (Note: This is a personal project. I'm not trying to create any machines that I'm gonna use daily from this.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted June 13, 2017 a cheap card such as 750ti would be good, long as you have x16 any all GPU should work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted June 13, 2017 You Could run a 1080ti and not see a huge drop in comparison to running it on a pcie 3.0 slot. Pcie 2.0 16x is the same bandwidth as pcie 3.0 8x My Builds MonoChromatico MonoChromatico v2.5 MonoChromatico v3.0 Frost Titan Marvel Phenom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted June 13, 2017 1 minute ago, NoobCase said: You Could run a 1080ti and not see a huge drop in comparison to running it on a pcie 3.0 slot. Pcie 2.0 16x is the same bandwidth as pcie 3.0 8x 16x and 8x have almost the same performance but it's just the age the performance gap is too small to notice Im mostly on discord now and you can find me on my profile My Build: Xeon 2630L V, RX 560 2gb, 8gb ddr4 1866, EVGA 450BV My Laptop #1: i3-5020U, 8gb of DDR3, Intel HD 5500 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted June 13, 2017 If it has to be PCI 2.0 specced cards I believe we are back at 5xx on the nvidia side of things. So a gtx 580 is the best you can do My Builds MonoChromatico MonoChromatico v2.5 MonoChromatico v3.0 Frost Titan Marvel Phenom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted June 13, 2017 18 minutes ago, NoobCase said: You Could run a 1080ti and not see a huge drop in comparison to running it on a pcie 3.0 slot. Pcie 2.0 16x is the same bandwidth as pcie 3.0 8x You can run 1080ti on PCIe1.0 and never saturate it, PCIe bandwidth is only relevant for servers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted June 13, 2017 Best PCI-e 2.0 : HD5870/5970 or GTX 580/GTX 590. But, as was mentioned earlier, you can use PCI-e 3.0 GPUs on PCI-e 2.0 boards. CPU : Core i7 6950X @ 4.26 GHz + Hydronaut + TRVX + 2x Delta 38mm PWM MB : Gigabyte X99 SOC (BIOS F23c) RAM : 4x Patriot Viper Steel 4000MHz CL16 @ 3042MHz CL12.12.12.24 CR2T @1.48V. GPU : Titan Xp Collector's Edition (Empire) M.2/HDD : Samsung SM961 256GB (NVMe/OS) + + 3x HGST Ultrastar 7K6000 6TB DAC : Motu M4 + Audio Technica ATH-A900Z PSU: Seasonic X-760 || CASE : Fractal Meshify 2 XL || OS : Win 10 Pro x64 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted June 13, 2017 all the PCI-e 3.0 devices are backwards compatible with PCI-e 2.0 and also with PCI-e 1.0 CPU: Intel i7 5820K @ 4.20 GHz | Motherboard: MSI X99S SLI PLUS | RAM: Corsair LPX 16GB DDR4 @ 2666MHz | GPU: Sapphire R9 Fury (x2 CrossFire)Storage: Samsung 950Pro 512GB // OCZ Vector150 240GB // Seagate 1TB | PSU: Seasonic 1050 Snow Silent | Case: NZXT H440 | Cooling: Nepton 240MFireStrike // Extreme // Ultra // 8K // 16K Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted June 20, 2017 Author On 6/13/2017 at 8:26 PM, DXMember said: all the PCI-e 3.0 devices are backwards compatible with PCI-e 2.0 and also with PCI-e 1.0 Oh ok. Thanks. I'll probably use a 1070 or 1080 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted June 20, 2017 Just now, liamh said: Oh ok. Thanks. I'll probably use a 1070 or 1080 great choice CPU: Intel i7 5820K @ 4.20 GHz | Motherboard: MSI X99S SLI PLUS | RAM: Corsair LPX 16GB DDR4 @ 2666MHz | GPU: Sapphire R9 Fury (x2 CrossFire)Storage: Samsung 950Pro 512GB // OCZ Vector150 240GB // Seagate 1TB | PSU: Seasonic 1050 Snow Silent | Case: NZXT H440 | Cooling: Nepton 240MFireStrike // Extreme // Ultra // 8K // 16K Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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