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Hi folks.

I'm a GREEN as GREEN can be noob on this board. I know this is a dumb question to some but I would like to know if a PCI Express 2.0 x16 card can be used in a regular PCI-E x16 slot ? More specifically an Asus A8N-SLI Premium sckt 939 ?

noob LEE :ohwell:
 

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PCI-E 2.0 is completely backwards compatible with PCI-E 1.0/1.1 and vice versa.
 

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Thanks for answering my dimwit question and not kicking me in the Jimmies !:nutkick:

LEE :toast:
 

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I got a PCI-E 2.0 card in a regular PCI-E

yes it well work
 

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Thanks for answering my dimwit question and not kicking me in the Jimmies !:nutkick:

LEE :toast:

We all start somewhere :eek: I tried to put a AMD cpu in a intel board a long time ago :laugh:
 
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yeap but if you use a pci ex 2.0 card on a pci ex 1.0 or 1.1 slot you loose like 3 or 4 fps i have tested it :) well i dunno much english thats cuz i cant explain more better my experience cya
 

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thanks for the replies...:respect:
 
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i have a 8800gt have pci-e 2.0 and am use mobo abit nf-m2s which have pci-e 1.0 , so it works fine
 
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works fine im running a 3870 in a 580x board PCIe 1.1 x16 board with my 2.0 cards
 
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the new GTX280/260 card only PCI-e 2.0 not backwards compatible they only state 2.0
 

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Thats not true. My friend has a GTX280 on a P35.

maybe they only state it have a look when the GX2 and older card say PCI-E 1.0/2.0
 

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Most PCI-E 2.0 cards will be listed at 2.0 but won't mention anything about supporting or working on older PCI-E 1.x slots.
 
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maybe they only state it have a look when the GX2 and older card say PCI-E 1.0/2.0

It's just b/c that's what the market is moving toward. If you notice it says pci 2.0 support, not required. It's the same slot, just w/ greater bandwidth allowances, which the newer cards I believe benefit more from than the previous ones, which didn't utilize the extra features as much.
 

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PCIe 2.0 by specification MUST support PCIe 1.0/1.0a/1.1 or else they will be kicked off the PCI-SIG's integrators list.

However, there are some 1.0a motherboards out there that do not like PCIe 2.0 cards because they interpretted some of the technical specs differently. Luckily for us those motherboards only belong to VIA and IDT.
 
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