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Does a Gen 3 GPU work on PCI-E Gen 2 mobo?

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Start date Mar 7, 2014

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Sorry if the question is stupid but I don't have much info about bus versions. So does it?

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Yes, PCIe 3.0 is backwards compatible with PCIe 2.0

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yes.

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Yes, PCIe 3.0 is backwards compatible with PCIe 2.0

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thanks

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Xiembeest

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Yes, pcie gen 3 is theorethically faster but the current day cards don't seem to benefit from it in a significant way. It's fully compatible.

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