GPU with Display port for 10 year old PC

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Hello everyone!
I was researching the net and trying different cards for my old pc. I am a photographer, so screen resolution is crucial for me, so I bought Dell Ultrasharp U2515h which has a max resolution of 2560 x 1440 and in order to get that resolution I have to plug in a display port. Now the best wallet friendly solution I found is to go with a bit older Quadro Series that support Display port, I've got myself a Quadro FX 580 for a laughable price, but can't get it working. So I decided to ask the Gurus of the net on what you would suggest.

My system has:
Motherboard: ASRock ALiveNF6G-VSTA
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 x2 6400+ 3.2GHz.
Power Supply: Be Quiet Pure Power L8 500Watt 80 PLUS Bronze
Memory: Kingston DDR2 667MHz 2GB x 4.
HDD: Samsung generic HDD 350GB (Will eventually hook it up with extra HDD 500GB)
GPU: Geforce 6800 (which I want to upgrade)

The priority for me is an average video rendering power and a minimum of 1 Display Port for that maxed out resolution on my screen. Your help is very much appreciated!
 
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service manual at https://www.manualslib.com/manual/347869/Asrock-Alivenf6g-Vsta-Installation-Guide-10-2007.html?page=2#manualPager 16 again repeats PCIE 1 " Install the NVIDIA PCI Express VGA card to PCIE1 (PCIE x16 slot)"
I confirm this is true of the ASROCK ALIVENF6G-VSTA V1.3 model as
page 2 shows item 30 as PCI Express x16 Slot (PCIE1)
well
downloaded the manual from http://asrock.pc.cdn.bitgravity.com/Manual/ALiveNF6G-VSTA.pdf directly
page 10 shows item 31 as PCI Express x16 Slot (PCIE1)
Page 16 reads PCIE Slots: PCIE1 (PCIE x16 slot) is used for PCI Express cards with x16 lane width graphics cards.

but no where does it truly mentions if it is PCEI 1.1 or 2.0
Note : PCIE1 is indicating the slot 1 not a PCIE 1.0 reference...
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It runs Windows Vista at the moment, I have ordered an extra HDD to transfer an image of my system onto it so I can update to higher Vista or Win 7. (Haven't decided yet which one I'll go for)
 
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I couldn't make it work yet, I'll try it out on another PC but I think my motherboard shouldn't have trouble running it, its Nvidia Quadro FX 580, 512Mb PCI Express x16 with 128-bit bus width. Not really sure why it shouldn't run, but I am not a pc enthusiast, just good at googling for information and according to everything that I've read- if I have a PCI-E x16 slot on my motherboard and a sustainable power supply- the card should run (I've read about the PCIe versions like 1.1 2.0 and 3.0, but according to everything even if the gpu is 2.0 and I have a 1.1 slot- they should be backward compatible). Am I missing something? maybe somebody could further the explanation on compatibility?
 
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My main problem is that I cant figure out what PCIe version is it on my motherboard, the official website doesnt state that, but other websites like pc-specs.com state that it has PCIe x 16 v2.0, this info is also supported by game-debate.com but if I check it out at any other website- they plainly don't state the version of PCIe at all.
 
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service manual at https://www.manualslib.com/manual/347869/Asrock-Alivenf6g-Vsta-Installation-Guide-10-2007.html?page=2#manualPager 16 again repeats PCIE 1 " Install the NVIDIA PCI Express VGA card to PCIE1 (PCIE x16 slot)"
I confirm this is true of the ASROCK ALIVENF6G-VSTA V1.3 model as
page 2 shows item 30 as PCI Express x16 Slot (PCIE1)
well
downloaded the manual from http://asrock.pc.cdn.bitgravity.com/Manual/ALiveNF6G-VSTA.pdf directly
page 10 shows item 31 as PCI Express x16 Slot (PCIE1)
Page 16 reads PCIE Slots: PCIE1 (PCIE x16 slot) is used for PCI Express cards with x16 lane width graphics cards.

but no where does it truly mentions if it is PCEI 1.1 or 2.0
Note : PCIE1 is indicating the slot 1 not a PCIE 1.0 reference

according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express
In 2003, PCI-SIG introduced PCIe 1.0a
In 2005, PCI-SIG[34] introduced PCIe 1.1.
PCI Express Base 2.0 specification on 15 January 2007
PCIe 2.0 cards are also generally backward compatible with PCIe 1.x motherboards

According to ASROCk manual rev 1.4 of it was Published October 2007
I would conclude you have PCIE 2.0 on your board. at worst 1.1

I would boot to bios and see date of Bios. could be used as reference.
I would test your video card in another computer to confirm it is not a bad video card first. the proceed from there.

 
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