New MOBO

Imperatore · Post by **Imperatore** » July 24th, 2008, 19:10

Hello all,

When I built my pc I didn't realise PCI-e2 existed. My 4870 is PCIE2 and now I'm aware I might not be geting the best out of my grpahics card.

My question is, will it make that much of a difference if I get a mobo with said slot and if so what chipset should I go for as I really don't understand whats what with regards to chipsets.

CPU is a Q6600 and mobo must support Xfire.

PS: I asked Amblin this at work and he advised I posted here as he likes to just plug things in and let them work without worrying too much about the little details.

Post by **deject** » July 24th, 2008, 19:42

it won't make too big of an impact. It's not worth upgrading your motherboard for. Just wait until you upgrade your CPU and all that.

Imperatore · Post by **Imperatore** » July 24th, 2008, 19:45

To be honest thats the answer I was hoping for. If everyone came in and said it was going to make a massive difference I'd have to do it but I think I can live with it for now. Especially as I have yet to struggle on any of the games I own.

Post by **deject** » July 24th, 2008, 19:54

I think the performance difference is like 1-2% in most situations.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » July 24th, 2008, 20:15

stay as you are, minimal difference.

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » July 24th, 2008, 20:49

I'd probably say no difference being totally honest.

Bit like AGP, x4 still has excess bandwidth for graphics, just didn't have enough power connectors iirc hence the change to PCI-e, I've not looked into pci-e2, but I suspect it'll be along those lines again.

Post by **deject** » July 24th, 2008, 22:56

buzzmong wrote:I'd probably say no difference being totally honest.

Bit like AGP, x4 still has excess bandwidth for graphics, just didn't have enough power connectors iirc hence the change to PCI-e, I've not looked into pci-e2, but I suspect it'll be along those lines again.

It makes a difference when you're running Crossfie/SLI but with a single card it's negligible. Current GPUs are actually pretty close to saturating PCI-Ex 1.0