Can i run my GPU in pcie 3.0 slot with sandy brige cpu?

[denus3]

Hello i have GTX 680 Lightning and i7-2600, most of the motherboards uses PCI 3.0 Slots, i want to buy Msi z77 Mpower and it doesn`t have PCie 2.0 slot only Pcie 3.0.
-- Can i use pcie 3.0 slot with my Cpu and gpu on pcie 2.0 mod. like using pci 3 slot but only with 2.0 bandwidth?
Is it posible? or i need to find motherboard with pci 2.0 slot.
Thanks for help!

 

[monu_08]

yes u can gtx 680 is new one and easily run on it. it also work with 2.0 pcie slot too

 

[tushardehra]

yes u can no problem at all and if u have 2nd generation proccessor it only supports 2.0