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Can a motherboard bottleneck a rig?
I understand that cheaper motherboards don't have support for say.... 2 GPU's or say 32GB RAM.
However is it okay to just slap on a $286 card and a $320 processor on a $60 motherboard.
The parts in particular are:
Motherboard: Gigabye ga-h61m-ds2
GPU: GTX 760
CPU: i7 3770k
Will the motherboard bottleneck those parts? Should I upgrade?
I don't care to run multiple monitors so if that and having more RAM is the only upside to upgrading your motherboard than i will just wait.
Thanks.
Just realized the motherboard only has pci 2.0 and the card is a pci 3.0 so no need to mention that.
1 Answer
- George HLv 77 years agoFavorite Answer
Sure you can but you may lose some advantages. the "H" chip sets are not conducive to overclocking so your "K" CPU will not OC well There will be little to no video loss from version 2.0 to version 3.0. There are Z77 Mother board that have the "newest" perks, but not all the "bells & whistles". Something like this?....http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8...
