card upgrade/help understanding pci 1.0 and 2.0

[Croikee26]

Hey everyone, I bought an HP a month ago with the ASUS M2N78-LA motherboard. It only has onbaord graphics so I need to change that. Only problem is I haven't upgraded a video card in probably four years. Last time I did I bought an ATI Radeon 9800.

Now I see there is pci, pci express and then 1.0 and 2.0 versions of pci expressx16. My motherboard documentation says it supports PCI expressx16 but nothing about 1.0 or 2.0.

Can I put a 2.0 in and it will work? How do I know if it is 2.0 compliant? What is a good direct x 10 graphics card for under $200 that would be a great step up from onboard graphics? Thank you!

Oh, how would this new card stack up against a good olt Radeon 9800 pro?

 

[SSChevy2001]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...xpress#PCI_Express_2.0

PCIe 2.0 is backward compatible with PCIe v1.x. Graphic cards and motherboards designed for v2.0 will be able to work with v1.1 and v1.0.

http://www.tomshardware.com/re...phics-Card,2033-7.html

 

[Croikee26]

Thank you, that helps on one question but the bigger one is how do I find out if my motherboard is pciexpress 1.0 or 2.0? All it says is PCI Express x16?

 

[ViRGE]

It's based on the GeForce 8200 chipset, so PCIe 2.0.