Will an 8800GTS PCI-E 2.0 work in a PCI-E 1 motherboard?

Legless · 12 Feb 2008 at 00:39

As the title... Building a new system, and just ordered a 512Mb EVGA 8800GTS... Will i be able to plug this in and use/test it on my old ASUS A8N-SLi Deluxe motherboard, whilst i scrape the cash to order the rest of my parts... :confused:

Any help appreciated... Thx...

mdixson · 12 Feb 2008 at 00:43

yes it will work fine as long as you have a good enough power supply

Legless · 12 Feb 2008 at 01:06

Have a 480w Tagan in my old system, all i wanna do is make sure its not DOA, and plauy some games with it whilst i save some money for my CPU/Motherboard/RAM purchases... If it works on the A8N-SLi, i'll be happy to play with it for a while... Thx m8...

brakeinup · 12 Feb 2008 at 08:11

I have the same board as you and my GTS works fine with an overclocked X2 3800 @ 2.55Ghz

mishima · 12 Feb 2008 at 08:22

It will be fine, I'm running a 2.0 card on 1.1

mdixson · 12 Feb 2008 at 13:18

Legless said:
Have a 480w Tagan in my old system, all i wanna do is make sure its not DOA, and plauy some games with it whilst i save some money for my CPU/Motherboard/RAM purchases... If it works on the A8N-SLi, i'll be happy to play with it for a while... Thx m8...

np happy to help

willhub · 12 Feb 2008 at 13:28

They wont work in 1.0 boards tho.

muppet · 12 Feb 2008 at 16:42

i thought even the 3870x2 cards could run on 1.0a and ita a newer card

cheers

willhub · 12 Feb 2008 at 17:01

The 3870X2 aint PCI-E 2.0 apparently.

Goldfingers · 12 Feb 2008 at 17:10

any ideas what pci my board is (p 35 DS3-R)

willhub · 12 Feb 2008 at 18:02

PCI-E 1.1

arrond · 12 Feb 2008 at 19:06

Was gonna start a new thread but this one seemed relevant to my question. I have a gigabyte rev 1.0 P965-DS3, im pretty sure it has PCI-E 1.0. Im looking to purchase a 8800GT or GTS soon, so will it be compatible with my motherboard?

I have used google to find the answer and it does seem some people do have a 8800GT on the same board but im a little nervous about getting a new card and wondering if it will work

Does anyone have a 8800GT on a rev 1.0 DS3?

Thanks.
Arron.

willhub · 12 Feb 2008 at 19:08

Dont think so, they only support 1.1 and higher.

RavenXXX2 · 12 Feb 2008 at 19:31

I have an Asus commando mobo which is PCI-E 1.0, runs my GT no problem, i guess the 8800gt/gts are completely backwards compatible with all PCI-E spec.

arrond · 12 Feb 2008 at 21:20

RavenXXX2 said:
I have an Asus commando mobo which is PCI-E 1.0, runs my GT no problem, i guess the 8800gt/gts are completely backwards compatible with all PCI-E spec.

Ive done some more research and it seems to be hit and miss. I dont really want to take the chance

On the up side im considering an E8200 with a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L and using my Geil PC6400 2GB. Im not sure what sort of clocks I can get with this RAM so gonna check out the overclocking section.

Thanks anyway

Margaret · 12 Feb 2008 at 21:22

willhub said:
Dont think so, they only support 1.1 and higher.

My PCI-E 1.0 mobo works fine with my 8800. :cool:

willhub · 12 Feb 2008 at 21:46

Oh my bad god knows were I got that thought from then

Skeeter · 12 Feb 2008 at 21:48

arrond said:
Does anyone have a 8800GT on a rev 1.0 DS3?

Thanks.
Arron.

Yes, Yes its a 965P, and Yes it runs absolutely fine! OCed to 702/999 and 12110 in 3DMark.

arrond · 12 Feb 2008 at 22:10

Skeeter said:
Yes, Yes its a 965P, and Yes it runs absolutely fine! OCed to 702/999 and 12110 in 3DMark.

Good score! Im getting 6700 in 3DMark06 so should double my score with an overclocked 8800GT

What bios version are you using on the DS3?

Thanks for the reply

bee · 12 Feb 2008 at 22:21

i got a gts 512 running on a ds3 1.0, bios f12, runs great, 12980 in 3dmark for what its worth although only ran it once