Mobo MSI H81M-E34 GPU Upgrade!

[aliG]

Hello there, long time havent been there, but i find your Community forum quite helpful. I wonder if i could upgrade my GPU card as it is on NVidia GT 630 4GB, it is deadslow and is my Rigs bottleneck.

Looking to buy Nvidia GTX 960 PCi-E But am worried if it will fit my mobo.

sShall i trust this site at all for compatibility? http://www.pc-specs.com/ as it is not including in choose list 900 series cards at all.


I have i7-4770 4-core 3,4GHZ CPU

 

[Feronix]

Pretty much any graphics card with a PCI-E 16x connector (which the 960 has) will run in any PCI-E 16x slot (as long as it is wired for at least 8x for Nvidia cards and 4x for AMD cards). Your slot seems wired for true 16x, so it won't be a problem at all.

I do think your motherboard supports the Gen2.0 standard, rather than the Gen3.0 that the card does. No worries though, it is backwards compatible and only means that it will run at 2.0 speed. Again though, no worries as there won't be any performance difference on a mid-range card like the 960

 

[aliG]

Hey thanks for such a fast response. Will go for it, much appreciated!