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treading   07-25-2008 at 01:15:19 PM

I currently have an MSI P6N SLI Platinum mobo which has PCIE X16 slots. I am wanting to buy a 9800 GTX PCIE 2.0 card now and upgrade my mobo at a later date. Will the 9800 GTX run in this PCIE X16 slot?

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Vokofpolisiekar   07-25-2008 at 01:21:21 PM
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PCIe 2.0 is backward and forward compatible with PCIe v1.x. Graphic cards and motherboards designed for v2.0 will be able to work with v1.1 and v1.0, and vice versa. In some rare cases it is possible that a PCI-E 2.0 card will not work correctly on a PCI-E 1.0a slot. This is only limited to certain video cards.

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outlw6669   07-25-2008 at 01:21:47 PM
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Yes, PCIe 2.0 is fully backwards compatible with PCIe 1.1.
It will work with no problems.

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strangestranger   07-25-2008 at 01:31:11 PM
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How much more does this question need to be asked?

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adith   07-25-2008 at 06:00:05 PM
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old question...it'll work..go ahead

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jeb1517   07-25-2008 at 06:14:40 PM
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No. You have to buy a motherboard that takes DDR3 memory because that's what your video card has.

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treading   07-26-2008 at 04:57:52 AM
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Thanks Jeb. Your a wealth of sarcastic information. I thought I would just have to buy an EVGA motherboard to go with the EVGA 9800GTX card. I would also like to thank everyone else for their helpful information.

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th_username   07-26-2008 at 05:05:55 AM
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there is no performance difference

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pilot3729   08-23-2008 at 11:30:57 AM
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jeb1517 wrote :

No. You have to buy a motherboard that takes DDR3 memory because that's what your video card has.



I have to admit that had me rolling! Nice

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treading   08-25-2008 at 05:46:29 AM
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Had me rolling too. But because I bought 10K of AMD stock @ 4.50 a share and just sold it @ 6.25 a share I can buy whatever I want now. Jeb can you recommend anything? Got $10K to play with.

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tbates1244   08-26-2008 at 04:01:55 AM
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OMG That stings ha

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