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I'm running a very old system and to say I'm out of the loop on hardware and desktop gaming would be an understatement. I do not have the budget for more than an inexpensive video card. I haven't done any desktop gaming at all in a long time and if I can catch up on some of the older games like GTA4 or games from the same era I'd be content.
I'm currently running a Pentium G620 @ 2.6Ghz with a Geforce 6600 on a Gigabyte GA-H61M-DS2 Rev 1.0 running 4GB of ram on Windows 7. Motherboard specs list my expansion slot as a
1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x16
(The PCI Express x16 slot conforms to PCI Express 3.0 standard.)
* PCIE Gen.3 is dependent on CPU and expansion card compatibility.
I assume that even the cheapest video card sold today that physically fits in my PCI-E slot would be a huge upgrade. Is anything sold today physically compatible ? PCI-E 2.0 any different than 1.0 in terms of physical compatibility ?
If that's not the case , even if I'm limited by the bandwidth on my slot I assume I'll be seeing a noticeable difference .. I wasn't able to play GTA4 on this system reliably in 2011.
Checking out the budget section for video cards I'm seeing lots of Geforce GT710 cards like this .. https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127931 which are in my price range which is 50-60$.
I assume the PCI-E 1.0 at this point is going to be my bottleneck rather than the card itself so pretty much anything will do ?
Any help is appreciated and as I mentioned before I don't have the budget for anything else at this point but a 50-60$ investment.
I'm currently running a Pentium G620 @ 2.6Ghz with a Geforce 6600 on a Gigabyte GA-H61M-DS2 Rev 1.0 running 4GB of ram on Windows 7. Motherboard specs list my expansion slot as a
1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x16
(The PCI Express x16 slot conforms to PCI Express 3.0 standard.)
* PCIE Gen.3 is dependent on CPU and expansion card compatibility.
I assume that even the cheapest video card sold today that physically fits in my PCI-E slot would be a huge upgrade. Is anything sold today physically compatible ? PCI-E 2.0 any different than 1.0 in terms of physical compatibility ?
If that's not the case , even if I'm limited by the bandwidth on my slot I assume I'll be seeing a noticeable difference .. I wasn't able to play GTA4 on this system reliably in 2011.
Checking out the budget section for video cards I'm seeing lots of Geforce GT710 cards like this .. https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127931 which are in my price range which is 50-60$.
I assume the PCI-E 1.0 at this point is going to be my bottleneck rather than the card itself so pretty much anything will do ?
Any help is appreciated and as I mentioned before I don't have the budget for anything else at this point but a 50-60$ investment.
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