Buy HD5670 or not

[KillerBee]

I have a asus P5SDM-VM and i was thinking of buying buying a hd5670 1gb gddr5 for it.My motherboard has a pcie 1.0 slot so should i buy this card?Will pcie 1.0 affect its performance ?If yes suggest a card which will be best. I wanna play game on at least 1280x1024 resolution

 

[rvilkman]

P5SD2-VM is the closest I could find for the mobo. And it does indeed have one PCIe 1.0 16x slot. Which is good enough to work with the hd5670.
The stuff is backwards compatible, but it is still fast enough for pretty much all graphics cards.

So no it will not affect the performance. The 5670 should give you pretty good performance at 1280x1024.

 

[Gothams Finest]

Yeah it will work fine with a 1.0 16x slot , you wont notice the difference in performance.

What games do you play? and what CPU & Memory do you have?

 

[pro-gamer]

yes you can fine with hd5670 gpu.

 

[GreenDutchAlien]

Some pcie 2.1 cards can give problems in a 1.0 slot i believe. Don't know which ones tho.

 

[Gothams Finest]

Most HD5670s are 2.0 not 2.1

 

[GreenDutchAlien]

Huh, why does newegg says it's 2.1 then ? http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&N=100006662&isNodeId=1&Description=hd5670&x=17&y=13

 

[GreenDutchAlien]

KillerBee which one do you wanne buy ? Make sure then it's a 2.0.

 

[Gothams Finest]

Huh, why does newegg says it's 2.1 then ? http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&N=100006662&isNodeId=1&Description=hd5670&x=17&y=13

Funny that, my 5670 is 2.0, but if newegg says other wise I must be wrong.

Newegg also stocks 2.0 versions

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814129185
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102920
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814141117

 

[GreenDutchAlien]

Funny that, my 5670 is 2.0, but if newegg says other wise I must be wrong.

Newegg also stocks 2.0 versions

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814129185
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102920
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814141117

Yeah, saw that to. On the bottom of the list ( didn't check em all the first time ) there are a couple of them. So if the op goes for one of them he'll be fine.

 

[Gothams Finest]

The sapphire is a very good card, but it depends on what games hes wanting to play and what kind of settings he expecting to use, no good getting a 5670 for crysis and battlefied 3 for example, unless hes happy using low res and low settings.

 

[KillerBee]

Best answer selected by KillerBee.

 

[KillerBee]

THANK YOU EVERYONE for their help