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I am trying to upgrade a 3-year old rig and I just purchased an affordable PCI 3.0 GPU, but I now realize my motherboard only supports up to 2.0. I know PCI is backwards compatible, but I want to take full advantage of the new GPU. My first question is, will making the jump to PCI 3.0...

Thank you everyone!

I was shopping for a cheap upgrade to a 3-year old rig and came across this on sale for $100: GeForce GTX 650 2GB GDDR5 400MHz RAMDAC PCI 3.0x16 1 Processor Will this give me a substantial FPS and graphics boost for games like Skyrim? I was hoping to play it on High Settings at 50-60 FPS...

Funny. Can you just make some suggestions regardless of price? I don't know what my price range is atm. I mainly want to see what is available that is compatible with my rig.

I am looking to upgrade my 3-year old rig for gaming. From what I've researched, it seems that my video card is the limiting factor in my performance (My processor is overclocked to 3.6 GHz and my power supply is quite good). The main game I'm hoping to improve is Skyrim (hoping for 50-60 fps...