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Different Gpu ports.

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  • PC gaming
  • PCI Express
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  • Graphics
  • GPUs
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April 3, 2014 9:55:21 PM

I'm a casual gamer new to PC gaming and was wondering if a gpu with a PCI-e 16 2.0 or 2.1 work with just a standard pcie 16 1.0.? Thanks

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April 4, 2014 1:28:03 AM

Yes, Graphics cards are backwards compatible so gen 2 gpu will work on gen 1. It would be the same as running a gen 2 card at 8x in terms of bandwidth, so for this reason, I don't recommend running the best gpu in gen 1 (anything worth more than 150).
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