Will this GFX card be compatible with my current setup?

[methus]

Hello, black friday started early this year at least in some stores and I was looking at upgrading my gfx card.

As you will see my PC spec is nothing fancy but it does the job for what I play. Since my gfx is rather old I thought of trying to buy something a bit better, sadly the gtx 660 were all sold out but even so I doubt that would be a huge improvement given my cpu is kinda low end. I looked around and found this, the MSI nVidia GeForce GTX650, 1024MB, GDDR5, 128bit, DVI, HDMI, PCI-E.

My current spec is:

Psu- Corsair CMPSU-650TX V2 650W, ATX2.3
Mobo- Asus P8H61-M/LX/REV3.0, Socket 1155
CPU - Processor Intel® CoreTM i3 2120, 3.3GHz, socket 1155, Box
Ram - Memory Kingston 2x4GB, DDR3, 1333MHz, CL9 ValueRam
GFX: Gfx: Nvidia 9800 gt 512 ram think it is gddr3 256 bit

Will it be compatible with what I have? My current memory is gddr3 but the gfx is gddr5, will this create any problems?

Thanks for the input and sorry for the dumb questions.

[Ectothrix]

The only thing I see (but shouldn't matter) is that the card is PCI-E 3.0 and the MOBO is 2.0

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/34...rd-work-slot#.

[methus]

The only thing I see (but shouldn't matter) is that the card is PCI-E 3.0 and the MOBO is 2.0

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/34...rd-work-slot#.

Thanks for the input

[Biernot]

Graphics card compatibility is not an issue. You can run any PCIe card on any board with an 16x PCIe slot.

Also the PCIe 2.0 and 3.0 is of little importance. Even current high-end cards barely reach the bandwidth limit of PCIe 2.0.

The memory on the card has nothing to do with the rest of your computer, because each card has it's own memory controller that accesses this.


As for which card to get:
I probably would not get a GTX 650. They are not that good for price/performance. A Radeon 7770 is faster in most games and usually cheaper. Also there are often Radeon 7790 on sale that are way faster than the GTX 650.

Powercolor Radeon 7790 - $100 ($80 after rebate)
HIS Radeon 7770 GHz - $90 ($80 after rebate)

Compared to that, a GTX 650 costs minimum $110 on newegg