first time building

[drdeadkin]

I know the baiscs of building (kinda) but will have someone helping me. can any motherboard support any gpu or do you need those new ones to support it. (going use a gtx 1050 ti).

 

[AppleGwava]

Generally,yes.But for best performance,you will need pcie gen 3 16x electrical slots.it will provide the max bandwidth.

 

[ThatVietGuy]

But for best performance,you will need pcie gen 3 16x electrical slots.it will provide the max bandwidth.

While it will THEORETICALLY provide the max bandwidth, the difference in performance is rarely significant.

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/pci-express-3-0-vs-2-0-gaming-performance-gain/5/

To answer the original question, as long as the motherboard has a PCIe x16 slot, you can use whatever GPU you want. It doesn't matter if it's PCIe 1.0, 2.0, or 3.0. All the new GPUs are backwards compatible with older PCIe generations.

Whether the BIOS can recognize the GPU is a different story though, but incompatibility is rare.

Post up your current motherboard and maybe someone can verify for sure, but you should be fine.

 

[drdeadkin]

Generally,yes.But for best performance,you will need pcie gen 3 16x electrical slots.it will provide the max bandwidth.

would a Gigabyte AMD FM2+ A68H SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 mATX ATX DDR3 2133 NA Motherboards GA-F2A68HM-H work? for gtx 1050 ti and intel i3 core 6100?

 

[ThatVietGuy]

Generally,yes.But for best performance,you will need pcie gen 3 16x electrical slots.it will provide the max bandwidth.

would a Gigabyte AMD FM2+ A68H SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 mATX ATX DDR3 2133 NA Motherboards GA-F2A68HM-H work? for gtx 1050 ti and intel i3 core 6100?

I don't know where you got the idea that an i3-6100 would work in that motherboard...

The GTX 1050ti will work, the CPU WILL NOT.