PCIe bottleneck?

[JoostinOnline]

My friend has this motherboard and I'm pretty sure it just has a first generation PCIe slot, since it doesn't say 2.0 or 3.0 in the manual. I wanted to do an upgrade for him. I found a great deal on a used GTX 950, which is more powerful than I was even looking for. Does anyone know if the throughput will be bottlenecked by the PCIe x16 slot?

[-rascal-]

7 minutes ago, JoostinOnline said:

My friend has this motherboard and I'm pretty sure it just has a first generation PCIe slot, since it doesn't say 2.0 or 3.0 in the manual. I wanted to do an upgrade for him. I found a great deal on a used GTX 950, which is more powerful than I was even looking for. Does anyone know if the throughput will be bottlenecked by the PCIe x16 slot?

 

That motherboard uses the Intel G41 chipset.

It has 16 PCI-Express 1.1 lanes.

 

A GTX 950 will not have any issues with 16 PCI-E 1.x lanes.

It will be equivalent bandwidth to PCI-E 2.0 X8 (or PCI-E 3.0 X4) -- which is plenty for that graphics card.

Even something like a GTX 970, GTX 1050 will do okay...if you wanted.

[Jurrunio]

G41 chipset uses PCIe 1.1, but bottleneck should be little since the 950 is an entry level card

[JoostinOnline]

34 minutes ago, -rascal- said:

 

That motherboard uses the Intel G41 chipset.

It has 16 PCI-Express 1.1 lanes.

 

A GTX 950 will not have any issues with 16 PCI-E 1.x lanes.

It will be equivalent bandwidth to PCI-E 2.0 X8 (or PCI-E 3.0 X4) -- which is plenty for that graphics card.

Even something like a GTX 970, GTX 1050 will do okay...if you wanted.

Thanks, I appreciate it. Honestly a 950 is going to be held back by the rest of the system anyway. I bought a Core 2 Q8200 for $8 on eBay, and I'm looking for 8GB of cheap DDR2 RAM, but the 950 will still be by far the fastest part of the system. I've got 7 months before my trip, so there is plenty of time for bargain hunting.