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Upgrading a GPU

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  • 19-05-2020 8:55pm
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    Tony EH
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    Thinking of replacing my old GTX770 with an RTX2060. She's only just started to show her age though and was a brilliant card.

    I have an old Gigagyte Z97X-SLI LGA 1150, though, and was wondering if the RTX cards would fit into it?

    Thanks in advance for any help. :D


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    wotzgoingon
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    It will fit the MB alright but what you have to check is how much room is in the case. But afaik them 2060's aren't too long of a card but always check just to be sure.


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    Tony EH
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    The case is huge. There's tons of space in there. It's a BitFenix Shinobi Full Tower.

    bitfenix_shinobi_xl_006.jpg

    The 770 is a pretty big card as it is and that fits fine. I was just wondering if there had been any changes in PCI-E connector tech and whatnot. I'd hate to blow a load of money on a new card and find out that the tech had outpaced me completely.

    It's been so long since I've had to change any hardware that I feel like a total noob.


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    wotzgoingon
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    No the card will work perfectly fine in Motherboard.


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    Homelander
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    What CPU do you have? If it's an i7 it wouldn't be too bad but a 4th gen i5 is going to hard bottleneck a RTX2060.


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    Tony EH
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    It's an i7 4790k.

    I'll probably be changing out the motherboard and the chip at some point this or next year too. I have to downgrade to Win 10 at some point as well I spose.


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