[SOLVED] Do I need to switch motherboard out when changing graphics card?

[UnstopableAj101]

I have just got an old pc from my friend that has a gt630 inside of it I would like to swap that out with a 1060 or 1050ti because this card is so old I was wondering if I would need to change the motherboard to switch this out.

 

[QwerkyPengwen]

No.
all motherboards since forever have used the PCIe connection for GPU. It's a universal standard slot.
While it has been upgraded over the years to support more speeds of data transfer, PCIe 2.0 has been around for a very long time so at the very least it will support that and you just need to pop in the new card and it will work as it should.

 

[whiteknighter]

GT 630 and GTX 1060 has different Bus. I'm not sure if PCIe 2.0 will support PCIe 3.0 card, but even if it supported the bandwith of GTX 1060 will be limited and decreasing the performance of GTX 1060. *edited PCIe 3.0 is backward compatible, look here http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2694698/pcie.html

 

[Gam3r01]

A 1060 is not going to fully saturate a 2.0 interface, it would perform at full potential.
Now, the rest of the system is a different story. An old system with a 630 might not be a good pairing with a 1060.
Full specs?

 

[scubasteve28666]

No.
all motherboards since forever have used the PCIe connection for GPU. It's a universal standard slot.
While it has been upgraded over the years to support more speeds of data transfer, PCIe 2.0 has been around for a very long time so at the very least it will support that and you just need to pop in the new card and it will work as it should.

lol i remember the old isa pci and agp video cards still got a couple of agp motherboards still and im not an immortal so saying since forever is a bit of an understatement mayby in last 10 yrs they have had pci-e still got people using the old agps for certian things