I'm looking at finally upgrading my Skyrim system, I've been enjoying the lack of a need to upgrade for the past several years even with new games.
MB is a Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3-iSSD F2, and I currently have an Nvidia GTX 580. The motherboard comforms to PCIe 2.0. I'm not sure which video card I'd like to go to, but when I look at, for example, a 1080 I see that it's PCIe 3.0. Will this not work at all on my MB, or just maybe not to optimal performance or whatever?
Does anyone have a specific card they would recommend? This might be the first time I've been able to do an upgrade just by switching out the video card since I can remember. I'm proud of my machine for getting this far without SSD, HDD, or any other failures.
I believe I can also buy a second GTX 580 and do SLI, but I'm not sure if that's a better option and the last time I looked it was pretty hard to find one.
MB is a Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3-iSSD F2, and I currently have an Nvidia GTX 580. The motherboard comforms to PCIe 2.0. I'm not sure which video card I'd like to go to, but when I look at, for example, a 1080 I see that it's PCIe 3.0. Will this not work at all on my MB, or just maybe not to optimal performance or whatever?
Does anyone have a specific card they would recommend? This might be the first time I've been able to do an upgrade just by switching out the video card since I can remember. I'm proud of my machine for getting this far without SSD, HDD, or any other failures.
I believe I can also buy a second GTX 580 and do SLI, but I'm not sure if that's a better option and the last time I looked it was pretty hard to find one.