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Old 19-04-2012, 00:53   #8
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Re: Sapphire hd 7850 oc 2gb gddr5

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Originally Posted by Mad Max View Post
Hm, not sure, but i think mine is a PCI-E 2.0, i thought that if you had any PCI-E motherboard then most cards would be ok, so what you're saying is that my board will not be able to support the above card?
Your board will support the card fine and not be limited at pcie 2 x8. I would say that card would be fine all the way down to pcie 2 x8 which is equivalent to pcie 3 x4, pcie 2 x16 would be preferable for the current highest end single cards 7900's and 680 and I am not even sure if the upcomming dual gpu solutions from amd and nvidia will even need more than pcie 2 x16's maximum and warrant the need for pcie 3.

These are also just limitations at the end of the day you could put any card into a pcie connector wired at 1x and it would work, just nowhere near its potential.
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