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buba199609
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I have an ASUS M2N68-AM PLUS motherboard and I am looking to update my graphics card to be able to play games like COD, BF3, BF4, Borderlands, etc. I have been looking around and found one on amazon. It is the EVGA GeForce GT 640 2048MB. The main thing that has me stuck is I don't know if my motherboard can handle PCI-e 3.0, I've checked the sited for my board but found nothing. I will post the specs and a link for the card I found, but I just would like to know what my best bet would be on getting one.
I am trying to stay around a $100 for the card.
Specs of EVGA:
GPU Clock: 901 MHz
Memory Clock: 1782 MHz
CUDA Cores: 384
PCI-e 3.0
2048MB GDDR3 128bit
Blue-ray 3D, DirectX 11, CUDA, PhysX, TrueHD, Nvidia 3D Vision, OpenGL 4.2 and Open CL Support
Nvdia SMX Engine, Adaptive Verticle Sync, Nvidia Surround, PureVideoHD Technologies

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I'd get this instead.

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Your motherboard would support the GPU, just make sure your PSU will support it (has to have a 6pin power connector and should be around 450w).
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It really does not matter if you have pci-e 2.0 or 3.0
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It kind of does. With 2.0, the bandwidth is limited so it will bottleneck some GPU's. 3.0 doesn't have this issue.
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Thanks for the help guys, I order the one Stedos recommended and it should be here by the end of the week.
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Terrabytez wrote It kind of does. With 2.0, the bandwidth is limited so it will bottleneck some GPU's. 3.0 doesn't have this issue.

Not necessarily, you wouldn't expect a huge performance drop as 3.0 hasn't really been utilized yet. In the real world when playing a game or something similar, you won't expect a performance drop really. I had a GXT 670 running on 2.0 with ease.
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