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gh071458   06-17-2009 at 09:55:22 PM

can you put a PCIe (1.0) x16 Vid Card in a PCIe (2.0) x16 slot on the mobo?

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xbeater   06-17-2009 at 10:12:02 PM
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quick answer: yes

the two slots are identical and backwards compatible. the only advanteage that V2.0 has over a 1.0 is that it can send moer power via the motherboard, and supposedly has a higher bus rate. you will not notice any difference between the two.

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ill b ben   06-17-2009 at 10:29:44 PM
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Not supposedly.

they do have higher bandwith the double of v1 there is just very little use for it with our current cards even cards like gtx295 have very little use from it

But on topic, Yeah your set to go

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iplaygames   06-17-2009 at 11:22:03 PM
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may i ask something. what if the one card is used in 1.0 instead of 2.0 , like for example if i use 4670 on 1.0 will its performance be almost half of that on 2.0?
what will be the diff in performance?

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megamanx00   06-18-2009 at 12:00:01 AM
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Yes, as long as your board is 1.0 compliment. Some early PCI-E boards don't adhere to standards too well so they can have problems, but that's really pretty rare.

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g3force   06-18-2009 at 12:15:13 AM
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iplaygames wrote :

may i ask something. what if the one card is used in 1.0 instead of 2.0 , like for example if i use 4670 on 1.0 will its performance be almost half of that on 2.0?
what will be the diff in performance?


No. As long as the bandwidth used by a card does not exceed the theoretical bandwitdh of the slot, you wont see any performance losses.

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the only advanteage that V2.0 has over a 1.0 is that it can send moer power via the motherboard


Both slots can provide 75 watts through the slot.

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