PCIe 3.0 Graphics Card on 2.0 PCIe slot

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milesose

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Back in ~2009 I made the super-server PC of the time, but now I have a problem with my graphics card (NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT) which seems to be dying slowly.

I decided to get a new graphics card and my friend recommended me NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 660. I looked up on NVIDIA's site to see the connection port to see it uses PCIe 3.0, although my motherboard (Gigabyte P43-ES3G) has a PCIe 2.0 slot.

My question is, will the graphics card work on a PCIe 2.0 slot? I looked it up but found answers which seem to only answer specific conditions on hardware.

Any help is more than appreciated.
 
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It will work fine. There won't even be any performance difference as long as the connection is x16. I'm currently running my PCIE 3.0 HD 7950 graphics card on a PCIE 2.0 motherboard and it works perfectly. You will be fine :)
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It will work fine. There won't even be any performance difference as long as the connection is x16. I'm currently running my PCIE 3.0 HD 7950 graphics card on a PCIE 2.0 motherboard and it works perfectly. You will be fine :)
 
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if you're not gonna sli u will notice 0 to 1% difference coz 8X PCIE 3.0 speed is enough for that card

8X PCIE = 16X PCIE 2.0 and even if u go SLI u will only notice 3FPS diffrance if u move up to PCIE 3.0 and that's with SLI

in a nutshell : a single GTX660 ON PCIE 2.0 Will have more than enough bandwidth
 
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