NVIDIA GTX 1060

[TheRealXero]

So I currently plan on purchasing a NVIDIA GTX 1060 but I found out that the 1060 is PCI-E Gen 3, while my motherboard is PCI-E Gen2, could I still run the 1060 with an AMD FX-8350 as my CPU? (AM3+ Socket), and not have problems with gaming?

[Guest]

Yeah, it will. No game uses the full power of gen 3

[Damascus]

2 minutes ago, Factory OC said:

Yeah, it will. No game uses the full power of gen 3

No gpu even, a 1080 ti barely saturates pcie gen 3 x4

[Super panda]

yes you can

[TheRealXero]

Just now, Damascus said:

No gpu even, a 1080 ti barely saturates pcie gen 3 x4

So I could run it fine? Cuz a lot of people have been talking about bottlenecking

[Guest]

Just now, Damascus said:

No gpu even, a 1080 ti barely saturates pcie gen 3 x4

Yeah, that's why I said it didn't matter really. 

 

[Guest]

Just now, TheRealXero said:

So I could run it fine? Cuz a lot of people have been talking about bottlenecking

Bottlenecking can happen because of the CPU, but not because of the PCI-E connection...

[TheRealXero]

Just now, Factory OC said:

Bottlenecking can happen because of the CPU, but not because of the PCI-E connection...

What would happen if that occurs? I don't know what bottlenecking is

[Vandorlot]

2 minutes ago, TheRealXero said:

What would happen if that occurs? I don't know what bottlenecking is

Bottlenecking is when one peice of your pc slows done everything else. So for instance if you have a bad cpu and a great gpu then your gpu wouldnt be optimaly used and the cpu would be the bottlenech. Dont worry pcie gen 2 doesnt bottleneck any gpu on the market yet.

[Guest]

The graphics card won't run on the most powerful way it can, because the CPU may be too slow. This may mean you will have to turn centain graphics settings lower to run better.

[TheRealXero]

Just now, Vandorlot said:

Bottlenecking is when one peice of your pc slows done everything else. So for instance if you have a bad cpu and a great gpu then your gpu wouldnt be optimaly used and the cpu would be the bottlenech. Dont worry pcie gen 2 doesnt bottleneck any gpu on the market yet.

Even if it were to happen, could I avoid it by setting my ram on dual channel?

[Vandorlot]

Just now, TheRealXero said:

Even if it were to happen, could I avoid it by setting my ram on dual channel?

What. If what were to happen?

[TheRealXero]

Just now, Vandorlot said:

What. If what were to happen?

Bottlenecking, cpu slowing down my gpu

[Vandorlot]

Just now, TheRealXero said:

Bottlenecking

It will not happen. And setting your ram to dual channel wont help. Dual channel doesnt affect pcie lanes. 

[LienusLateTips]

22 minutes ago, TheRealXero said:

So I could run it fine? Cuz a lot of people have been talking about bottlenecking

That's BS

[Anjelllo]

16 minutes ago, Factory OC said:

The graphics card won't run on the most powerful way it can, because the CPU may be too slow. This may mean you will have to turn centain graphics settings lower to run better.

Well, if the cpu is the bottleneck, changing graphical settings( resolution, texture settings) wont help much, but turning down cpu-reliant settings like render distance and npc spawn rates will.

[Guest]

11 minutes ago, Anjelllo said:

Well, if the cpu is the bottleneck, changing graphical settings( resolution, texture settings) wont help much, but turning down cpu-reliant settings like render distance and npc spawn rates will.

Textures does use more CPU. I Should know. I have a Core 2 Duo, but my brother with precisely the same graphics card can hit way better textures. The game only ran worse when turning up textures or viewdistance.