Will this 9600GT work with my mobo?

cyphergreen · 06-05-2008, 09:09 AM

Hello all. My 7900 is starting to go haywire, so I need a new card. Here is the card I've been thinking about getting: http://www.xfxforce.com/web/product/...tionId=2037707

Will this card work with my mobo? Here are the specs for it: http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/...ProductID=1916

Thanks!

acrimitis · 06-05-2008, 12:38 PM

it should work, but the card will be bottlenecked by your mobo's PCIe1 slot, you might want to look into upping to a mobo with a PCIe2 slot

another thing to consider is that the 9 series nvidia cards tend to draw a lot of power compaired to most cards, so your PSU may have issues with it, and your mobo may not be able to supply the power through the PCIe1 slot.

on the surface though, it looks like it SHOULD work.

**emosun** · 06-05-2008, 11:13 PM

The 9600 is a pci-e 2.0 card. If your pci-e slots are not the 1.1 revision then it will not work. Also if your current gpu is going haywire then I'd like to know what psu you have in the system.

06-05-2008, 09:09 AM	#1 (permalink)
cyphergreen Registered User Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 4 OS: XP	Will this 9600GT work with my mobo? Hello all. My 7900 is starting to go haywire, so I need a new card. Here is the card I've been thinking about getting: http://www.xfxforce.com/web/product/...tionId=2037707 Will this card work with my mobo? Here are the specs for it: http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/...ProductID=1916 Thanks!

06-05-2008, 12:38 PM	#2 (permalink)
acrimitis Registered User Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 3 OS: Windows Vista 32bit	Re: Will this 9600GT work with my mobo? it should work, but the card will be bottlenecked by your mobo's PCIe1 slot, you might want to look into upping to a mobo with a PCIe2 slot another thing to consider is that the 9 series nvidia cards tend to draw a lot of power compaired to most cards, so your PSU may have issues with it, and your mobo may not be able to supply the power through the PCIe1 slot. on the surface though, it looks like it SHOULD work.

06-05-2008, 11:13 PM	#3 (permalink)
emosun Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: usa Posts: 6,921 OS: xp pro sp2 My System	Re: Will this 9600GT work with my mobo? The 9600 is a pci-e 2.0 card. If your pci-e slots are not the 1.1 revision then it will not work. Also if your current gpu is going haywire then I'd like to know what psu you have in the system. __________________ Gpu Benchmarks Cpu-Z Power supply information and selection Gpu-Z Video card quick list