Morning Discussion

From The Chatty
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    January 7, 2011 5:07 AM

    hey shack - here's an easy one to start MD off.

    PCIe 2.0 video cards will work in a PCIe 1.0 slot right? It just won't get all the speed because of the lower bus speed right?

    Thinking about ordering a new video card.

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      January 7, 2011 5:11 AM

      what's all this mumbo jumbo sciency talk?

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      January 7, 2011 5:14 AM

      Yes, PCI-Express 2.0 cards will work in PCI-Express 1.0 slots. They will run at 1.0 speeds.

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        January 7, 2011 5:21 AM

        and you won't be able to tell the difference in speeds.

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        January 7, 2011 6:33 AM

        Technically I believe they have to be 1.1, but I'm pretty sure that's at most a firmware update. Wasn't actually working on computers for a living back when that change happened.

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      January 7, 2011 5:52 AM

      so what's good? I'll be playing SC2, Fallout NV, Dragon age, and eventually BFBC vietnam -

      What would it take to run at least SC2 at max settings at max resolution (my monitor is 1680 x 1050)

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        January 7, 2011 6:28 AM

        GTX 460 or higher. I think a GTX 460 would run all those games nicely at very high settings (at least at that resolution), but I am not completely sure.

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          January 7, 2011 7:03 AM

          I run SC2 at max settings at 1600x900 including 4xAA.

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          January 7, 2011 10:22 AM

          gtx 460 is a beast. got one from gigabyte and it came at 715mhz. overclocked to 860 without doing anything to voltage. runs all games like a charm.

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      January 7, 2011 9:59 AM

      So I ordered a PNY GTX 460...336 cores, 1 gig...it's a furby or something

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      January 7, 2011 10:40 AM

      So is there some way to tell if the 1.0 is actually bottlenecking my performance? Just how much work does my GTX 470 have to do to strangle the 1.0 bandwidth limit?

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        January 7, 2011 10:47 AM

        You need a top end card at above 1900x1200 res. before you'll start hitting bottlenecks.

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          January 7, 2011 10:49 AM

          ^this every source I have seen says that the bottleneck only occurs at higher resolutions.

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          January 7, 2011 10:49 AM

          Awesome.

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