PCIe 2.0 Card

[Imcompa]

Can anyone actually show me proof that the 8800GT will work with a PCIe 1.1 and not only with PCIe 2.0?

 

[kllrnohj]

Sure, thats easy. http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTQxMCwyLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==

The 680i chipset isn't PCIe 2.0, and yet the 8800GT worked with it just fine

 

[motioneso]

PCIe 2.0 will just be a change in the format on the MOBO. The actual PCIe 2.0 slots will be backwards compatible as well. The only difference is 2.0 will have better performance (but you won't notice much of a difference yet.)

 

[Imcompa]

okay, thanks. I just don't want to buy a card that I can't return without knowing if it will work on 1.1

 

[Mr.Pickles]

kinda like the AGP 2 and 4 X days

 

[Wolf-R1]

kinda like the AGP 2 and 4 X days

No more like the difference between 4x and 8X AGP. In theory it was faster but nothing ever made the most of it. Even now there isn't a PCI-E card out there that can make use of the entire bandwidth allotment for a 16x PCI-E 1.1 slot.