775Dual-VSTA - Supported PCI Express VGA Card List for PCI Express

[Palms]

Has anyone tried a card not on the list and it works, like a 7950x2 or 7950gt. I want to buy one of these and put in this board. Is there any reason why it won't work?

palms

 

[Mr Vain]

7950x2 apparently needs 16 pci-e lanes to work properly but the775dual-vsta only has 4 lanes.

The 7900gt should work ok I think.

 

[hyperen]

Thats my concern also, I'd like to buy that motherboard so I can use my current DDR1 RAM and upgrade to 2gig DDR2 when I can afford it but the PCI-E x4 thing is worrying me. Would it mean a x1900GT or x1800XT runs slower than it would in a PCI-E x16 slot?

 

[Mr Vain]

Originally posted by: hyperen
Thats my concern also, I'd like to buy that motherboard so I can use my current DDR1 RAM and upgrade to 2gig DDR2 when I can afford it but the PCI-E x4 thing is worrying me. Would it mean a x1900GT or x1800XT runs slower than it would in a PCI-E x16 slot?

Only the high end PCI-e cards take a small performance drop running on a PCI-e 4x slot
Other midrange and lower cards are not held back at all check these reviews.

http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2797

http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2797&p=10

http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2797&p=13

Beats other more expensive motherboards in various benchmarks.

 

[Palms]

Originally posted by: Palms
Has anyone tried a card not on the list and it works, like a 7950x2 or 7950gt. I want to buy one of these and put in this board. Is there any reason why it won't work?

palms

Well i took the punt, the 7900GS works well