Do I need to worry about upgrading motherboard with GPU if its old or will it work okay just buying a new GPU?

  • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
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    10 days ago

    Assuming PCIe, you’ll be limited to the bus speed of whatever version your motherboard has, but otherwise you should be able to get video fine as long as you get your drivers configured correctly.

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      10 days ago

      This is the motherboard I have it says it’s a ‘generation 3’ but duesnt say what gddr vram it supports. I would like to put in a Intel arc card with gddr6 gram

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        The VRAM is handled entirely by the card itself, the motherboard doesn’t need to support anything more than PCI-E.

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        The bus speed just translates to how quickly data can be transferred through the mobo to your card to be processed/rendered. I’d just pop it in and configure it, then run a benchmark program, which will tell you where your bottlenecks are. In terms of functionality there’s no reason it shouldn’t work, but don’t expect newer AAA games to run at full spec.