i have an alienware Aurora R3 with pci 2.0, will this bottleneck the performance of this card since its a pci 3.0
1341366
PCIe 3.0 DOES have double the bandwidth of PCIe 2.0, but that doesn't matter, because there is no card yet that is bottlenecked by sixteen lanes of PCIe 2.0. (i.e. a standard pcie 2.0 slot.)
1341367
PCIe 3.0 DOES have double the bandwidth of PCIe 2.0, but that doesn't matter, because there isno card yetthat is bottlenecked by sixteen lanes of PCIe 2.0. (i.e. a standard pcie 2.0 slot.)
1341368
The card supports pci 3.0, but it doesn't really come close to using the full bandwidth that 3.0 allows. In fact, I'm not sure that it surpasses 2.0. The consensus on the internet is that there's almost no noticeable difference with a single GTX 780 Ti. Multiple cards might be another situation, but I've got 2 GTX 780 Ti cards in SLI on my PCI 3.0 mobo and it wasn't a significant improvement compared to the previous PCI 2.0 mobo I had.
1341369
PCIe 3.0 slots only offer more bandwidth for your card to use, so in most everyday usage you wouldn't even see a performance increase with 3.0. So, no, using a 2.0 slot with a 3.0 card will NOT bottleneck your performance.
1997131
Yes. This GPU conforms the the PCIe specification which is backwards compatible with previous versions of the specification. This means that this GPU should be compatible with any motherboard that has x16 sized PCIe slots. PCIe 3.0 does have increased bandwidth over PCIe 2.0/2.1 and while the card is technically a PCIe 3.0 card, it will work just fine in the PCIe 2.0 x16 slots on your motherboard and there will be little to no perceptible performance loss.
2147694
As long as you have a PCI-Express slot, yes. I forget now, but this card either uses PCI-E 2, or 3. If it is 3, then running it in a 2.0 will bottleneck your card (Not too badly, though). Otherwise, not a problem. I can't find your motherboard model anywhere, otherwise it'd be very short.
880028
I can't believe the misinformation here. At out current time, only a top, top end GPU like the GTX 980 or 970 will make use of PCIe 3.0. Yes, 3.0 does double the speed of 2.0, but nothing actually makes it necessary that plugs into 3.0. At most, you might lose a frame or two per second in a game by running a 3.0 card in a 2.0 slot, if that. All of the available bandwidth in PCIe 2.0 has yet to be used. So, you will be just fine!
584880
I read on wikipedia that PCI-E 1.0 and 2.0 were backwards compatable. Only in "very rare cases" would they not work together. I, like you, am planning on getting this as an upgrade from the 8600 GTS.
2063549
Yes, but if you look at any PCI'e benchmarks you'll see that the GPU won't use all the bandwidth. I have two GTX 770's in SLI and have no bandwidth bottleneck. Hope this helps.
405684
The truth is - PCI-e 3.0 is unnecessary. There are no current cards that are bottlenecked by 3.0 - it is a marketing scheme. Cards only get a max of 3FPS gain, and those are dual engine cards (GTX 690/Radeon 7990) or a GTX Titan. It is 100% backwards compatible.
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Yes, that's what I installed it on. There is almost no reduction in performance between 2.0 and 3.0. Apparently no video card currently out can actually outperform 2.0 at this time. Well, I haven't confirmed that with the newly released GTX 700 models.
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It says that it takes up to Power Consumption up to 75W no additional PCIe power required. And from what I read in PC Mag your PC consumes about 70 Watts under Load so if you don't have multiple Hard drives or Using alot of USB devices you should be good with this card with your power supply. Here is the article I found in PC Mag. From what I read I would say yes it would work fine. But the PC is getting a little outdated to so I don't know how much performance you would see from this card. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2255115,00.asp
1997127
It would work. Buy PCI express 3.0 if you can afford it. I don't have 3.0 however and the card still screams.
461282
PCIe 2.0 works just fine (I ran Crossfire with this and a Tri-X on an AMD system with PCIe 2.0).
333364
Yes this card is much faster than your card, its pci 3.0, memory is 5800mhz, has 1280 stream processors. its just faster
2149399
Yes it will do just fine I have no problems at all with this card between you an me this card kicks ass big time lol. Mines running 2 27inch montiors with no problem at all
1094876
Can't answer that since it would most definitely depend on what other components you have. This card does not require a lot of power by design, but the total power load would depend on the other components in your system - not just this card.
1817857
Yup! I have mine on a PCI-e 2.0 (x16) and have no problems what so ever. As long as it gets the juice, you'll be just fine.
1517475
it will handle it quite well, in 1080p, it is a very overclockable card, great card. in short it will handle it well.
880029
It will work just fine, I bought this card like a month ago and my mother board is PCIE 2.0, the performance is excellent! No complaints so far. The card its great you should get it.