Video card slot help.

[Mongo6]

I was wondering if you are able to put a PCI express 3.0 x16 video card in a PCI express 2.0 or 2.1 slot? I've asked people before and some say its possible and some say its not possible.

 

[BrightCandle]

Yes you can. It will work and current testing suggests it makes almost no difference to the performance of the cards. The PCI-E 2.0 slot still needs to be x16 physically so the card will fit and performance reasons you'll probably want to make sure its also providing a full x16 capability as well. But PCI-E cards are backwards compatible so long as they fit its all good.

 

[Greenlepricon]

Definitely possible. It actually won't make hardly a difference if any for current high end gpu's. We still haven't completely hit the bandwidth ceiling that 2.0 gives us.