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Nov 6^th, 2008 at 6:14am

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My 4850 that i will be buying is PCI-E 2.0... my MB that i will be buying is PCI-E, will they work together, and will this affect the output of the graphics card?

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Reply #1 - Nov 6^th, 2008 at 8:08am

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The MB you intend buying, is it PCI 2.0 Compatible?

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Reply #2 - Nov 7^th, 2008 at 5:04am

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Flying Mouse wrote on Nov 6^th, 2008 at 8:08am:

The MB you intend buying, is it PCI 2.0 Compatible?

No, it is a Asus P5 KPL-CM, my mate has one and a PCI-E 2.0 Card and it works, now how much power does it cut out of the card?

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Reply #3 - Nov 10^th, 2008 at 6:16pm

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The card is backward compatible but to unleash its full potential it needs a 2.0 port with the proper drivers to enable to use that bandwidth...as far as I know.

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Reply #4 - Nov 10^th, 2008 at 10:46pm

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I bought an Nvidia 1GB 8800GT PCI-E 2.0 card awhile ago. My old motherboard was just standard PCI-E. This new motherboard supports 2.0. Really didn't notice any difference in performance with the new support. I don't know if other cards would change that but I don't think there will be a truly noticeable difference. Undecided