Can My Motherboard Supports AMD R7 250 or GTX 650?

[KHANZZzzz]

Current Configuration
ASUS M2N68 AM SE2
AMD ATHLON II X4 640
RAM 4 GB DDR2
GFX INNO3D GT 440 1GB
PSU 450W

can i run GV-R725OC-1GI (R7 250 PCI Express 3.0 x8) or GV-N650OC-1GI (GTX 650 PCI Express 3.0 x16) on my asus m2n68 am se2???

secondly can my motherboad run dual slot graphics card??

has anyone tested??

 

[ksham]

Your motherboard only has one PCIe 1.0 x16 slot. Both GPUs will work fine because they are not powerful enough to saturate the bandwidth provided by PCIe 1.0. The only caveat is that your PSU should be of a decent quality brand.

And if it weren't clear to you already, your motherboard cannot run multiple graphics cards.

 

[KHANZZzzz]

but amd r7 series says compatible with 2.0 not backwards i found mostly in google.. secondly as gtx 650 takes dual slot will my motherboard accept it

 

[ksham]

PCIe lanes are all backwards compatible. The difference is bandwidth.

And sorry, I misread your second question. Yes; you should be fine with hogging up two expansion slots.

 

[KHANZZzzz]

in nvidia live chat option they made it clear for me that all cards are backwards compatibile but amd supports said they are not sure about compatibility with previous m asking in this scenario that will R7 250 PCI Express 3.0 x8 will be compatibile with my motherboard ... ok dual slot doesnt touch with the heatsink neary by??

 

[ksham]

I already answered that question so I won't repeat myself.

How big is you heatsink? It should have plenty of clearance. If it touches the heatsink, you are probably installing it incorrectly.

 

[KHANZZzzz]

So as my system having pciex 1.0 should i go for r7 250 gddr3 2gb gigabyte oc or r7 250 gddr5 1gb gigabyte oc edition as it can't utilize ggrd5 on this port fully??

 

[ksham]

That question doesn't make sense. GDDR is the graphics card memory. It has nothing to do with PCIe slots. That said, GDDR5 > GDDR3. It's faster and the reason why that is more important in GPUs is because GPUs must work with large amounts of data at once. So the extra speed of GDDR5 makes a difference.

Currently, we have only DDR3 RAM that the CPU uses. In normal activities on your computer, you are rarely working with large amounts of data. They are usually a lot of small data. So in that scenario, it's not as important for there to be a DDR4 (planned but I don't have an ETA) or DDR5 compared to graphics cards. It is more important to measure DDR3 by latency and timing instead.

 

[KHANZZzzz]

Ok thanks for the knowledge , i was thinking that if i take r7 250 2gb ddr3 it can save a little future as well instead of r7 250 1gb ddr5 in terms of mid settings gaming.. sorry i bother you again gigbyte r7 250 pciex 3.0 will be compatibile with my board ? as they didn't mentioned.

 

[ksham]

Yes.

 

[KHANZZzzz]

so i should go with 2gb ddr3 for future proof you mean yes in this sense or compatible?

 

[Jesus Gonzales Dongo]

Yes, its beem said that pcie is backwards compatible dont worry about that. Both cards are similar gbyte or R7. If you have amd id say go with R 7. Just make sure UR mainboard drivers are updated.

 

[ksham]

so i should go with 2gb ddr3 for future proof you mean yes in this sense or compatible?

I answered your question in your previous post. You asked only one question, which is (again) about the R7 250 being compatible with your motherboard.

You have 4GB DDR3 as mentioned in your original post. That is fine. You can add more RAM if you are using up that 4GB.

 

[KHANZZzzz]

i got better exchange offer at my retail store for it http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4133#sp gigabyte hd 7770 ... is it supported on my motherboard asus m2n68 am se2