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Identifying motherboard

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Cuse313

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I am trying to upgrade my graphics card and am having some trouble. So I am trying to determine what kind of PCIe x16 slot it has. The computer is an hp a6114x. I have tried to find out specifications on it or what kind of mobo it is. Is there an easy way to determine which PCIe x16 (1.0,1.1,2.0) it is?

thanks,
Jordan
 
http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php

you can use CPU-z. Under the mainboard tab it should show the graphic interface available.

As far as distinguishing the interface, it's more than likely 1.0 or 1.1 unless the chipset (under the mainboard tab in CPU-z) is a P45 or something new. The bandwidth increase from 1.1 to 2.0 is superficial since very few boards will utilize the extra available bandwidth, and they are cross-compatible.
 
Yeah so its an ECS Nettle2. Searching for specs I still can't find which it is. I don't really care about speed as much as compatibility. I have a 2.0 card and so if its a 1.0 slot it won't work but if its a 1.1 it will. Its my friends computer and be bought a different card than I had said and before we go back and get a new card because this one doesn't work I wanted to verify that it was the card and not the computer.
 
Cuse313 said:
Yeah so its an ECS Nettle2. Searching for specs I still can't find which it is. I don't really care about speed as much as compatibility. I have a 2.0 card and so if its a 1.0 slot it won't work but if its a 1.1 it will. Its my friends computer and be bought a different card than I had said and before we go back and get a new card because this one doesn't work I wanted to verify that it was the card and not the computer.
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where are you hearing that it's not backwards compatible with 1.0...? IIRC there are only limited instances where it is not, and that's not the norm...

look at Q5
 
Was it plugged in? Some graphics cards require extra power and need to be plugged into the PC's power supply via 6-pin PCIE plug or adapter that usually comes with cards that require the extra juice.
 
No it doesn't require power to be plugged in. Thanks for the link to that program it is exactly what I was looking for! I'll go over and run it later :)
 
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