II was just looking at video cards I wanted to buy and I've noticed that they are "PCIe 2.0 x16" video cards. Now, my computer has a PCIe x16, which I'm assuming is 1.0, video card slot. Can I still get away with buying a PCIe 2.0 x16 video card and run it in my PCIe x16 slot? If so, does it affect the video cards graphical performance at all?|||Yes. The 2.0 spec is faster than the older PCIe x16 slot, so there is less bandwidth available to you, but the cards are backwards compatible. This may or may not translate to a performance hit, but the cards will work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCIe#PCI_Ex…|||Yes, you can. However, you will only get performance of a pci-e 1.0 slot. SO your are not getting the full performance that your card could provide.
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