PCIe 3.0 card in PCIe 2.0 slot?

RexLex

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I want to but the gtx 1060 and it says that it has a big support of pci e 3.0
And i have a motherboard with a pci e 2.0 slot so Will it work?? And if so Want Will be the performance drops??
 
Solution
It will work without problems, PCIe is backwards compatible. It will work at 99% of it's full efficiency, just 1% difference to having it on PCIe 3.0.