Gfx Card + Mobo compatability. Little Confused.

carneyd1

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Hi there,

I am just a little confused about the compatibility between my new Mobo and my new Gfx Card.

Can anyone give any answers as to will this actually work lol.


MOBO: Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H Socket 1155 VGA DVI HDMI 8 Channel Audio ATX Motherboard

Expansion Slots

1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x16 (PCIEX16)
(The PCIEX16 slot conforms to PCI Express 3.0 standard.)
* For optimum performance, if only one PCI Express graphics card is to be installed, be sure to install it in the PCIEX16 slot.
* The PCI Express x16 slot supports up to PCI Express 2.0 standard when an Intel 32nm (Sandy Bridge) CPU is installed.
1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x4 (PCIEX4)
* The PCIEX4 slot shares bandwidth with the PCIEX1_2/3 slots. The PCIEX1_2/3 slots will become unavailable when a PCIe x4 expansion card is installed.
3 x PCI Express x1 slots
(PCIEX4 and PCIEX1 slots conform to PCI Express 2.0 standard.)
2 x PCI slots


GFX Card: XFX HD 6870 900MHz 1GB GDDR5 Dual DVI Dual Mini DisplayPort HDMI PCI-E Graphics Card - Black Edition

Connection

1 x PCI Express 2.1 x16








Im also running a Intel i5 3450 - 8Gb Corsair Vengeance RAM


Thank you for any help you can give me :D
 

luciferano

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The only PCIe incompatibility that I'm aware of is PCIe 1.0a motherboards with PCIe 2.1 graphics cards.

PCIe 2.1 and PCIe 3.0 devices work together. PCIe 2.1 was made specifically to work with PCIe 3.0 optimally IIRC.