Will the motherboard in my decade old desktop pc work with any new graphics card? (lemmy.world)

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Do I need to worry about upgrading motherboard with GPU if its old or will it work okay just buying a new GPU?

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Thank you for the great response! Yeah not quite a decade but were getting there. For some reason I think lots of people are still stuck in 2010s when they hear 10 year old computer parts they think subconsciously think of duo Pentiums from the early 2000s not intel i7s and AMD ryzens lol.

I decided to get try a nvidia p100 instead. it was more in my price range + it allows cuda with the nvidia card I have in another desktop I could chain up. Thanks for looking up the ARC anyways! Though do you know why it says the p100 says a bus length of 4096 while most other cards are like 128? P100 specs

Amd 580 specs

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

It's because it uses HBM (high bandwidth memory) as opposed to GDDR.

A short video explaining the differences https://youtu.be/CGIVKT0eM_s

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