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    Calculating Video Card bus requirements

    PCI-E 1.0 has .25 GByte/s per lane up to 16 lanes and PCI-E 2.0 has 0.5 GByte/s per lane.
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    Calculating Video Card bus requirements

    Great to hear. Rest of the system is a quad core 2.4 bumped up to 3.0 with 6 gigs on Vista 64. I'd still be curious as to how to calculate it though if anyone knows.
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    Calculating Video Card bus requirements

    I'm in the position of having to purchase a new video card for a PC with only a PCIe x16 slot available. I'm looking to buy a mid range card, maybe an HD4850 at most, but I don't want to buy more card then the slot can handle. So what's the rough formula for determining how much bus...