Can PCIE 3.0 Card Work With PCI 2.0 Slot on MOBO

Munishwar

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Hi There,

Following are my PC Specs;

Processor: AMD FX 8320 Black Edition
MOBO: Asus M5 A97 R2.0
RAM: 8 GB
HDD: 2 TB Seagate & 500 GB WD Blue
PSU: Cooler Master 500Watts

If I'm not wrong, my MOBO has a PCIE 2.0 Slot and I've ordered Asus NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 TI OC 2 GB GDDR5 Graphics Card. As you can see its a PCIE 3.0 Card and I'm confused as if it'll work or not? Will there be any performance drop? Will I be able to play Batman Arkham Knight, Witcher 3, Call Of Duty, Assassin's Creed Unity,etc?

Please help me!
 

maxalge

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yes pcie 3.0 is backwards compatible

make sure your bios is up to date though
 
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