SOLVED HT1.0 vs HT2.0/3.0

I am putting together a reasonably low profile computer for my brother, its main aims are typical usage + some flash acceleration; maybe possibly the odd game, nothing serious.

I don't understand how HT works, besides common sense that bigger numbers usually mean faster. The board i picked out does 1000 MT/s compared to 2000 MT/s with HT 2.0. Will the specified systems really notice a throttle with HT 1.0? The bandwidth room is something like 3.2GB/s with a uni-directional 16bit linkwidth. The board only supports PCIe 1.0 and besides typical devices and a low profile GFX card, there is nothing to really pull more than that.

are my assumptions correct? what kind of cards require pcie 2.0? is there any benefits for low end cards?


Thanks.

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There will be some performance hit moving down from HT 3.0/2.0 to HT 1.0. It would be somewhat noticeable in certain situations, I think where there is a large amount of data being moved between motherboard components that depend on the PCI-e bus but I'm really no expert in this area. I'm thinking however with the stated use of the system and the very modest video card you quote you won't notice much difference between the PCI-e standards, however. The CPU you chose is a good one, however, that with the right motherboard is a great overclocker and possibly has core that can be unlocked. I would really like to see you invest in a little better motherboard and one that has potential to unlock cores. Where do you see on the web site that the board only supports PCI-e 1.0? I would be surprised that any board recent enough to work with DDR3 ram would only have PCI-e 1.0 technology as that came out way back in 2005.

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QuietIce said:

The 3DMark scores for your G210 are about half what they are for my old PCIe 1.0/HT Link 1.0 7900 GTX so I'd say there's plenty of bandwidth there for your card.

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Thanks,i thought as much. Think the G210 can handle 1080p acceleration smoothly? possibly some basic games?


@trents it is a budget system for my brother; mainly web browsing. i am just buying a somewhat 'future proof' cpu.

MuffinRage said:

Thanks,i thought as much. Think the G210 can handle 1080p acceleration smoothly? possibly some basic games?

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Absolutely!

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Thanks guys for the fast and direct answers. Much appreciated.