PCI-E 1.0 and 2.0 compatibilty query

I just bought an eVGA GTX 260-216 GPU card and I would like to know if this is backwards compatible with a PCI-E 1.0 slot on an ASUS A8N-E(assuming that's what it is) as I can't find the info anywhere. Wiki is somewhat vague on this, to me at any rate.:confused This query mainly relates to folding as I don't game. I'd like to know before retransplanting my new PSU and card to the X2. My knuckles have been scraped raw from the first transplant today.:cry:-D

BTW, this 260 is just sooo sweeet!:cool Thanks all.

 

I have a 9800GT which is a PCI express 2 card and my motherboard right now is a PCI express 1 so it should work ok. However it could bottleneck the card.

 

That's good to know but the bottlenecking was what worried me. I'm probably being too skittish but with a few hours of work ahead, you can see why. Thanks Eric.

 

Yes, it is backwards compatible with the PCIe 1.0 spec. Besides, the PCIe 2.0 spec has yet to be fully implemented in new video cards, and very few (if any) take full advantage of the 2.0 features. Personally, I wouldn't worry about it too much.

(BTW- I recently upgraded from a 9600GT to a GTX260-216 and couldn't be happier! Keep in mind that most GTX260s have the fans locked at 40% which is far too low IMO; I upped mine to 70% with RivaTuner and it idles at 40-43c and maxes out at 55c during crazy gaming sessions; nice and cool :cool and don't worry about sound, I can't even hear the video card fan over the other fans, but your fan may vary)

WELL SAID!!!!! :-D

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Yup, %70 fan gives me 57C at full load and at default fan I get 73C. The sound is noticeable to me but it's a nice whooosh instead of the whiny/warbly/jarring noise I get from my 9800GTs when at or over %70. Man, even at %100 the 260 is not that bad.:cool

Thanks for distilling down the PCI-E standards verbiage to something that I could understand. It's going to be a long day tomorrow moving power supplies etc. and cable management. Besides, this Corsair 750TX has no right angle SATA connectors and with thick cables I would be loathe to sharply bend them as I have a CM 690 case with sideways mounted HDDs. Back to the Antec we go.rolleyes

Now to go and try some demos games I have just to see how this 260 does.

 

OK all, the transplant went exceedingly well! The 260 is just humming along with the shaders pushed to 1525 though it is a tad warm on auto fan ATM. I haven't had the chance to play a game on it yet but folding will surely test this sucker out to the max!:-D

Well, the fan is not locked on my card as you can see in the screenie and it's going full tilt there. Also, as you can see, I'm using eVGA's Precision 1.7.1 utility which is way better than the older one as it can even see multi GPU's now and OC them in tandem. Besides, it's a much nicer GUI than RivaTuner.

http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/3401/foldingfirstoc1525.th.png

Thanks again everybody!:wine