I would like to upgrade my EVGA GEForce 570 to a GeForce 970 card. The 570 has worked fine since I replaced the original 550ti with it. I know the power supply is adequate for the 970, but realize that it has PCI-express 3. 0 architecture (which is which is in general backwards compatible with PCI-express 2.0 slots like in this motherboard). My questions are: a) will the card work in the computer? b) will I potentially be able to unlock utilize its full PCI-express 3.0 potential by using a "force enable gen 3" command (or could that even make it unbootable)? The first question is the most important. I have a X79 chipset and I-7 3930 processor, plus 32 GB of RAM. Thanks for any advice!
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