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

  • mortalic@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    Most people aren’t responding to the specifics of that board, but even though it’s old it’s still PCIe x16 and will work with a lot of modern cards. The cards of it’s era were things like the nvidia 1660 or any of the AMD Radeon 6000x series would be fine. As others have said you’ll need to ensure your PSU is able to provide enough power, and that your cpu might not be able to provide enough data. So anything past that era might be pointless.

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      10 days ago

      and that your cpu might not be able to provide enough data.

      That also depends on the settings and resolution you plan on playing with. The higher the visual settings and resolution, the more demand is on the GPU. So when you plan to play on very high visual settings at a high resolution, a higher end GPU might make sense even with an older CPU.