Low FPS - What is causing it?

Dang.. Although I am not %100 sure it's PCI-e 1.0, I'm pretty sure.
That's bad news for me I guess

 

If you can get the make and model of your mobo to confirm it, with a program or just open the computer case and it must be written somewhere on it.

 

Looked it up.


1 * PCI Express x16 (2.0)

Will 2.0 work?

Or do you recommend getting a 2.0 card instead of 3.0?

 

I am running a 3.0 card on 2.1, and 2.1 only has stuff like powersaving, no bandwidth increases over 2.0. (AFAIK) So it will be fine. I believe it takes something like a 7990 to need a bigger slot than 2.0, even a overclocked 7970 should fit well within 2.0 slot spec.

 

Great! Thanks for the info, I really appreciate it!

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Okay you guys, I made up my mind. I'm going to get the card I posted on here + the PSU I posted. Then, maybe, a new CPU.
I will let you guys know how it turns out! Thank you all so much for the help!
I love to see such great people on the forums. I can't thank you all more that enough!

 

You can use any card you want, most revisions (they're just different revisions, not different versions) of the PCIe slot are compatible with each other and there are no mechanical differences. If you use a PCIe 3.0 card on a PCIe 2.0 board the graphics card will fall back to the PCIe 2.0 protocol so that's no problem.


Since the chart's in German: on the left side you can see the different cards and on the top the different slots. Green means it will work, dark red means it won't work, yellow is untested and light red means that it might work but you should expect troubles. PCIe has nearly perfect backward compatibility.

 

Thanks, that helps a lot!

 

Hey guys and girls,

I have low fps, too. On optimal settings I have the same fps-rate like on lowest...wtf? (@about 22fps, while driving through maps: 16-20fps)

I put away my E7500 and build an E6700 in.
Graphics: 9800 GTX+ 512MB DDR3, PCI-E 2.0 (Mainboard has got 16x 2.0)

I only have got 3 gigs of RAM, does it run better with 4 gigs?


greets

 

Well the CPU is from 2006. The GPU a similar age. Neither were cutting edge at time of release.

now consider moores law which in a vastly simplified form suggests that computer speeds double every 2 years.

Now what does that tell you.