pcie 2.0 work on pcie clasic board?

[Sharft6]

i want to buy a 3870 but it is pcie 2.0 and i have a pcie mobo.

i'm wondering if will work on my mobo and if it does is there much of a performance difference between the 2?

 

[Blacken]

Yes. It will run without bottlenecking performance at all for you. PCIe 2.0 is for the future - to support graphics cards that have more bandwidth than the ones we currently have on the market.

 

[Sharft6]

thats really great news for me

 

[Blacken]

Though... I don't know if I'd run it on a PCIe x8 board. PCIe x16 is ideal.

 

[Blacken]

Feeling bad for not telling you this in the first place now that you've gone offline and are probably buying the card . PCIe x8 may bottleneck a bit, not to worry though; the picture quality and performance will still be good if this is your case.

 

[Sharft6]

lol nah i have pcie x16 and i need to save up money for it yet

i said pcie classic rather than pcie 1 to try avoid confusion. seems i've done quite the opposite