So I've been out of the hardware game for a little over 10 years now, but used to love building my own PCs. I see things have obviously advanced quite a bit since, and I'm looking for some advice on upgrading my graphics card only and whether this would be possible with my current setup.
So I currently rock a Core I7 920 on an ASUS P6T motherboard, with an ATI 4850 GPU. I recently purchased an ultrawide monitor to use with my work laptop, but then realised that my own graphics card did not support 3440x1440, so if possible I would want to upgrade the graphics card only. I see my motherboard only supports PCIe2.0x16, but a lot of modern graphics cards seem to sport PCIe4.0 connections. Is my motherboard going to severely limit what I can do in terms of replacing the GPU? Note that I am not planning on intensive gaming anymore (those days are long behind me!), so just need a relatively cheap GPU that supports the ultrawide resolution for standard internet browsing, videos etc.
My budget is around £150 - £200, and in the past I have preferred Sapphire ATI cards (for no particular reason). Do I need a complete system overhaul, or is there a cheap graphics that I can just throw in? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
So I currently rock a Core I7 920 on an ASUS P6T motherboard, with an ATI 4850 GPU. I recently purchased an ultrawide monitor to use with my work laptop, but then realised that my own graphics card did not support 3440x1440, so if possible I would want to upgrade the graphics card only. I see my motherboard only supports PCIe2.0x16, but a lot of modern graphics cards seem to sport PCIe4.0 connections. Is my motherboard going to severely limit what I can do in terms of replacing the GPU? Note that I am not planning on intensive gaming anymore (those days are long behind me!), so just need a relatively cheap GPU that supports the ultrawide resolution for standard internet browsing, videos etc.
My budget is around £150 - £200, and in the past I have preferred Sapphire ATI cards (for no particular reason). Do I need a complete system overhaul, or is there a cheap graphics that I can just throw in? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks