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Will a PCIe2 card work in my mobo?

Postby Psymon » Mon Dec 31, 2007 9:07 pm

Hi,
I'm having trouble finding certain information by myself so I was hoping i could find some help here.

My motherboard is the .
I want to know if my mobo has PCIe 1.0, 1.0a, or 1.1 please.

I've read that PCIe2 cards (eg HD3870, 8800GT) are unlikly to work in PCIe 1.0 or 1.0a slots and I'm looking to upgrade to one of the above cards, possibly.

Alternatively, instead of finding out what PCIe version my mobo is, does anyone else have my mobo with a PCIe2 gpu in it or anything like that?

Cheers
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Postby liljim » Tue Jan 01, 2008 12:15 am

im sorry Psymon but i cant find anything either, went through your manual and still nothing. I havent used any pcie2 cards either so i cant help there either.
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Postby Psymon » Tue Jan 01, 2008 4:01 pm

Thanks for trying liljim :)

I just got a post from another forum I asked in that said 'The cards are backwards compatible, but not with the ASrock VIA chipset'.

No sources were given but if that's true then i should be fine.
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Re: Will a PCIe2 card work in my mobo?

Postby Psymon » Mon Sep 08, 2008 6:41 pm

Good news! You know that PC I'm building for a friend? the GPU we ordered is PCIe2 and I slapped it into my PC breifly and it worked fine, so no worries for when I finnally upgrade :)
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