FYI it says "1000 MB" because it shares with your system's RAM. It has 256MB dedicated though but will use your system's if necessary.
also came buckets for the 680. Anyone want to buy my 460 768MB when I can get a 680? Only $100 and it works great still. I also have a 1.5TB HDD that works too, goes for $100 as well.
Oh stuff PCI E 3.0? Will that work with 2.0 and will I notice a difference?
Yes, all PCI frameworks are backwards-compatible.
No card can really fully take advantage of PCI-E 3.0 yet, and it does double the bandwidth from PCI-E 2.0, however as shown in a PCI-E lane scaling test, downgrading from a 16x to a 8x (halving bandwidth) or even to a 4x (quartering bandwidth) doesn't affect performance that much at all.
So in conclusion to that somewhat distracted sentence, no, it will not be affected.
Something to note is that we currently can't use PCI-E 3.0 anyway, we need Ivy Bridge CPUs to do so.
I want to upgrade my computer. I have a decent CPU (I think), but a stuffty GPU. Here's my specs:
Operating System:Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
System Manufacturer: eMachines
Model: EL 1352G
AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 220 Processor (2 CPUs), ~2.8GHz
Memory: 2048MB RAM
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
GPU Name: NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE nForce 430
DAC Type: Integrated RAMDAC
Approximate Total Memory: 889MB
I'm unsure how to upgrade it because of how small the tower is. I just want a setup that can run games decently. Nothing too expensive.
Might need a low profile card. Depending on how small the case REALLY is.
I definitely wouldn't go about buying new CPUs for it, as it is obviously a relatively low-end, small system, and isn't worth doing that for. The current CPU isn't too bad, and I expect you could at least get a HD5770 with no bottlenecks, although it might be a mission getting something that powerful to fit in the case, lol.
