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[THERESONATOR]

I have a DFI Lanparty SLI-DR Expert mobo and I'm wondering whether I can stick a couple of the latest nVidia cards in there, swap out my SLI 7800GTX's. These newer cards all do DirectX 10, but question is, does my chipset support that?

I'm running Vista64 btw.

 

[habbakuk87]

Yes any chipset with support for pci-e x16 will run a gfx card whether dx 9 or dx10.

 

[THERESONATOR]

Thanks. Not sure if it is PCI Express 2.0? I will check my board's spec.

 

[Quiksilver]

The performance gain/loss between pci-express 2.0 and 1.0 won't matter it's like 2FPS on average. The only thing you would have to check is if the board is pci-express 1.0a or not. IIRC pci-express 1.0a boards have trouble with 2.0 cards.

 

[THERESONATOR]

OK turns out I dont think it does have PCIE 2.0, so whats the best option for an upgrade?

 

[Mem]

Originally posted by: Quiksilver
The performance gain/loss between pci-express 2.0 and 1.0 won't matter it's like 2FPS on average. The only thing you would have to check is if the board is pci-express 1.0a or not. IIRC pci-express 1.0a boards have trouble with 2.0 cards.

I'm using PCI-Express 2.0 card (4870) in a PCI-Express 1.0a board (Epox nforce 4 ultra) with no problems at all, they are backwards compatible.

 

[Andrew1990]

The only motherboards I would worry about with the new PCIe2.0 standard is the old PCIe v1.0a Via based chipset boards and even then most of those boards will work after a few small fixes.

 

[Arkaign]

Originally posted by: THERESONATOR
OK turns out I dont think it does have PCIE 2.0, so whats the best option for an upgrade?

I don't think that's much of an issue outside of hardcore SLI/CF setups at this point.

 

[Stumps]

Originally posted by: THERESONATOR
OK turns out I dont think it does have PCIE 2.0, so whats the best option for an upgrade?

any card you want, they will all work in your PCI-E 1.0 setup