PCI Express 1.0 x16 / PCI Express 2.0 x16

[gilither]

Hello, I have a motherboard that has PCI Express 1.0 x16 slots and would like to know if these newer graphics cards that say PCI Express 2.0 x16

For exampole, would the ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series or the NVIDIA 400 Series work on this motherboard http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=Tiqsh7TlDIG7JbO3

 

[benski]

Yes, they will work. Link speed will be halved, but apparently it has very little effect on performance.

 

[Helltech]

Yes they will work just fine. It could be beneficial to update your BIOS to the latest rev before hand, however.

Just stay away from 2.1 cards, they are sometimes iffy in 1.0 slots, but 2.0 are fine.

 

[Andon48]

Yes, I actually have a brother in law running a Sapphire rev. 2.1 HD5770 in his crappy nforce 630i motherboard with a rev. 1.0 pci slot and it works fine. It works on his but that doesn't mean you couldn't have problems with another board or card.