Whar pci express ver. can i use

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i have an XPS-8000 i5-750 the specs say

PCI express

Gen2 x1 slot bi-directional speed — 500 MB/s
Gen2 x16 slot bi-directional speed — 16 GB/s

Can I use a PCI express 2.1 x16 video card?
Actually what are the limits on cards i can use? Mar 26, 2014
 
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You can use any PCI-E graphics card you want. The question is what will give you the most bang for the least bucks. A PCI-E 2.1 x16 card will work in the x16 slot at PCE-E 2 speeds, giving you that huge total bandwidth.

2.1 is the same speed as 2.0. It just includes some of the new commands that were planned for 3.0 at the time.
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You can use any PCI-E graphics card you want. The question is what will give you the most bang for the least bucks. A PCI-E 2.1 x16 card will work in the x16 slot at PCE-E 2 speeds, giving you that huge total bandwidth.

2.1 is the same speed as 2.0. It just includes some of the new commands that were planned for 3.0 at the time.
 
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You can run any card on any ver of pci-e slot. Although there are some cards I don't remember which cannot run. What card are you tring to run? There will be a very discrete to slight performance decrease but you should be able to do your work.
 
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I am looking to buy a card for my Dell. It looks like the biggest limitation is going to be the psu.
 
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It is a 350 watt psu
 
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well it's a 8000 but i think it is still a standard size. It's kind of an old box and I don't want to put a lot of money into it. I seem to be experiencing a problem that I think is video related. After an OS update it started crashing once a day. I just did a clean install and so far no crashes.

I'd like to just get a new computer!
 
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