PCI-E video card question

Hi,
I am going to build a computer based on a Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3R mobo. The
video card will be a Nvidia 9800 GTX. The mobo has a PCI-E x16 slot but the
video card needs a PCI-E 2.0 x16 slot.
What is the difference and will it work in the mobo?

Thanks.

Raymo...

"Raymo" <raymacadam@NOSPAMbtopenworld.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I am going to build a computer based on a Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3R mobo. The
> video card will be a Nvidia 9800 GTX. The mobo has a PCI-E x16 slot but
> the video card needs a PCI-E 2.0 x16 slot.
> What is the difference and will it work in the mobo?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Raymo...

The 9800GTX is fully backwards compatible with the PCIe 1.1 slot in the
GA-EP35-DSR3 board. There will no issues. Or performance loss.

On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 19:57:27 +0100, "Raymo"
<raymacadam@NOSPAMbtopenworld.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>I am going to build a computer based on a Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3R mobo. The
>video card will be a Nvidia 9800 GTX. The mobo has a PCI-E x16 slot but the
>video card needs a PCI-E 2.0 x16 slot.
>What is the difference and will it work in the mobo?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Raymo...
>

The 2.0 spec. allows for more memory bandwidth, but in
real-world games, and applications, no graphics card can really push
that much bandwidth. The 2.0 sec. is backwards compatable with PCI-E
1.x slots. I'm running an ATI HD3850 PCI-E x16 2.0 card on my PCI-E
x16 1.0 slot mainboard.

Many thanks for the info.

Raymo...


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>
> "Raymo" <raymacadam@NOSPAMbtopenworld.com> wrote in message
> news:UfadnThKXt7h-u_VnZ2dnUVZ8hydnZ2d@bt.com...
>> Hi,
>> I am going to build a computer based on a Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3R mobo.
>> The video card will be a Nvidia 9800 GTX. The mobo has a PCI-E x16 slot
>> but the video card needs a PCI-E 2.0 x16 slot.
>> What is the difference and will it work in the mobo?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Raymo...
>
> The 9800GTX is fully backwards compatible with the PCIe 1.1 slot in the
> GA-EP35-DSR3 board. There will no issues. Or performance loss.
>