LGA-775 motherboard with PCI Express 2.0?

[green_cab]

I'm searching for an inexpensive motherboard with LGA-775 socket and one PCI express 2.0 spec slot that will support the following old hardware:

Intel Core 2 Duo E8400
nVidia GeForece GTX 460 - using PCIe 2.0 <<<=== IMPORTANT!!

Any suggestions?

I have a MSI G41M-P25 ver. 6.0 board but it only supports PCIe 1.0 spec - specs were mislabeled when I bought it.

http://www.msi.com/product/mb/G41M-P25.html

 

[Euchrestalin]

I would get a P45 board. I have a Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R and it works great but any P45 motherboard will have PCI-E 2.0 if the UD3R is too expensive for your budget.

 

[IGemini]

Any reason other than the PCIe version that you need to upgrade?

If the answer is no, then don't bother. You need to handicap the bus to 4x before performance sees more than a 5% drop. Even at 60 fps, that's 3 frames. Not worth the money spent. There's a really good benchmark out there about it, sure someone will post it.

 

[tweakboy]

Any reason other than the PCIe version that you need to upgrade?

If the answer is no, then don't bother. You need to handicap the bus to 4x before performance sees more than a 5% drop. Even at 60 fps, that's 3 frames. Not worth the money spent. There's a really good benchmark out there about it, sure someone will post it.

Your not going to see a frame rate difference by going to P45 PCIe 2.0

Your 1.1 PCIe of your LGA 775 board will do just fine.

I cant believe you want to change motherboards for this reason. Like when your FPS is 88fps with 1.1 maybe you get 89 or 90fps like the chap said.

Think about a whole new upgrade ,, that I can understand. Go to a Sandy Bridge 2600k and new mobo , new ram, new psu with your 460 1GB ... Other then that the above you say with your specs your not gonna get a frame rate difference going to 2.0 ,,,,,, stick with what you have you have been mis informed ... Youll do a upgrade in 2012 or 2013. Your gonna yank out your old mobo, put in a P45 chipset ,, Then you MUST install Windows over again clean, install your apps blah blah, all this for basically 1fps more LOL... not worth it buddz...gl D:

 

[tweakboy]

Also do you have a OC on your E8400 . You can take her really high if you have adequate cooling.

At stock speed that CPU is a bottleneck for that 460.

Why don't you think about OCing your CPU and gaining more FPS then grabbing a mobo thats gonna do the same exact darn thing.

If you need help OCing your CPU ask and well take you there. Also the 460 1GB is a beast of a overclock if you make sure to run the fan at 100 percent manually when you play. gl

 

[green_cab]

Thanks for all the information.

The reason I was considering buying a replacement motherboard with PCI-e 2.0 was that for the last year I thought I was running with a PCI-e 2.0 slot - not a 1.0 slot as described on the Gigabyte spec sheet - too bad I didn't save the spec sheet on newegg when I bought it - the PCI-e 2.0 slot was THE REASON I bought the motherboard in the first place.

I bought the GTX 460 1GB on sale cheap and bought the board to go with it - nothing overclocked yet.

I use this computer to run debian and cuda- I remote into it using ultravnc.

Any idea if running CUDA and PCI-e 1.0 is slower than using PCI-e 2.0?

I don't get any warnings?

Plus, any benchmarking software I run never returns any useful video card info because I'm running XP.

Any overclocking advice would be helpful...

 

[IGemini]

If it's slower, it's not by much. Graphics cards aren't at the point where a single one can saturate the PCIe bus, even a 1.x version.

What kind if info are you looking for with benchmarking?

 

[green_cab]

I used passmark software to determine the model of motherboard that was in the computer without having to pull out the video card - the GTX 460 is a double-slot card so it covers the model number of the motherboard - stupid place to print the model number - Gigabyte, I'm talking to you.

Unfortunately, no benchmarking software could give me any info on the video card and the bus speed so that's why I had to look up the specs again - and to my surprise I found the card was PCI-e 1.0.

After all the information and the lack of motherboards out there that are LGA-775 I'll just live with what I have.

My new project is to buy an AMD Phenom II x6 1055T with Gigabyte ga-ma78lmt-s2 motherboard and 4 GB of ram - I only run XP on my home network - I have another GTX 460 I can put into this one - SLI is too expensive.