Will a PCIE 3.0 GPU work with PCIE 1.0 ?
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It will work since PCIe 3.0 is backwards compatible but what sort of performance hit you'll see with a PCIe 3.0 card in a first generation PCIe slot I've no idea, I've never been there.
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If when you say PCIE 1.0 you mean PCIE GEN 1 then yes its compatible. Also running a PCIE 3.0 card on a different PCIE GEN slot has no performance hit, PCIE 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 just steadily have higher bandwidth than the previous gen.
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Yes and NO. There have been many reported instances of newer GPUs not working on older motherboards... I have first hand experience with that. Some motherboards required a BIOS Update to use newer card.. and some just weren't compatible.
Before doing anything, I would first research/check to see if the card you're interested in has had any problems/issues with your particular board.
One thing I should point out is... older motherboards with NVidia chipsets have a history of sometimes not working with newer AMD cards.
Before doing anything, I would first research/check to see if the card you're interested in has had any problems/issues with your particular board.
One thing I should point out is... older motherboards with NVidia chipsets have a history of sometimes not working with newer AMD cards.
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