3.0 to 2.0 pci-e graphics cards

knd82808

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I've done a bit of forum searching here and seems to be a consensus that there isn't much of a performance drop off in using a 3.0 graphics card in a 2.0 slot, although it seemed that the CPU might effect this, I was wondering if I would receive a drop off in performance with an AMD Athlon II X2 245 2.9GHZ.

If it matters at all the graphics card I was looking at was either the Radeon 7790 or geForce 650 TI, just something to simple.

If you could explain why I would or would not or direct me somewhere to find out, I would greatly appreciate it too.

Thank you for your time and I apologize for any bad formatting (dont know any HTML).
 

knd82808

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How bad of a bottleneck? Im not looking to run BF4 on ultra or anything. Just looking to get off of running everything on lowest possible settings.