- Dec 14, 2004
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I stopped keeping up on video cards years ago & my 8600GT won't cut it with any of the newer games I want to buy. I have an older Gigabyte GA-G31M-S2L that I'm pretty sure has a PCI-e v. 1.0 slot, but want to run one of the newer ATI 5750s on it. From what I gather it'll work, at least according to Wikipedia (hehe),
"PCIe 2.0 motherboard slots are backward compatible with PCIe v1.x. PCIe 2.0 cards have good backward compatibility, new PCIe 2.0 graphics cards are compatible with PCIe 1.1 motherboards, meaning that they will run on them using the available bandwidth of PCI Express 1.1. Overall, graphic cards or motherboards designed for v 2.0 will be able to work with the other being v 1.1 or v 1.0."
Clearly, I'd like more advice than Wikipedia's before I drop $150 on a card that might not work with my system.
"PCIe 2.0 motherboard slots are backward compatible with PCIe v1.x. PCIe 2.0 cards have good backward compatibility, new PCIe 2.0 graphics cards are compatible with PCIe 1.1 motherboards, meaning that they will run on them using the available bandwidth of PCI Express 1.1. Overall, graphic cards or motherboards designed for v 2.0 will be able to work with the other being v 1.1 or v 1.0."
Clearly, I'd like more advice than Wikipedia's before I drop $150 on a card that might not work with my system.