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3050 on PCI-e 2.0

kumar101

kumar101

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My 1650 just died and want to replace it with 3050 Card.
But my MB is old Haswell based thing with a PCI-e 2.0 slot. I understand PCI-e 4.0 is backwards compatible but just need someone confirm to me will work OK, cheers.
 
kumar101 said:
My 1650 just died and want to replace it with 3050 Card.
But my MB is old Haswell based thing with a PCI-e 2.0 slot. I understand PCI-e 4.0 is backwards compatible but just need someone confirm to me will work OK, cheers.
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You sure it is PCI-E 2.0? I thought Haswell was PCI-E 3.0.

p.s. I can't imagine the 1650 is very old, I assume you checked the warranty?
 
As above, Haswell is PCIe 3.0, the first slot is directly wired to the CPU. Depending on which chipset the board is using, the other slots may be 2.0 but you'll want to use the CPU controlled slot for the GPU anyway.
 
Orcvader said:
Ivy Bridge actually with the Z77 chipset, had a 2600K + Z68 that was stuck on 2.0.
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Just looked in to it a bit further and....we're both half right :P

Z68 boards did support it (link), but needed an Ivy Bridge CPU, Sandy was stuck on 2.0....although when I posted I think I was thinking of the 2 series iGPU support, as I had a p67 board which needed a dGPU
 
Tetras said:
You sure it is PCI-E 2.0? I thought Haswell was PCI-E 3.0.

p.s. I can't imagine the 1650 is very old, I assume you checked the warranty?
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It's H81 Chipset, I checked the Manual and it states PCI-E 2.0. MSI Ventus - I bought it on 3 Jun 2019, came with 3 year warranty so only just missed it :(
 
kumar101 said:
It's H81 Chipset, I checked the Manual and it states PCI-E 2.0. MSI Ventus - I bought it on 3 Jun 2019, came with 3 year warranty so only just missed it :(
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The PCIe slots from the chipset is 2.0 but the main x16 slot that you'll plug the GPU into is 3.0 since it's controlled via the CPU and not chipset.
 
Orcvader said:
The PCIe slots from the chipset is 2.0 but the main x16 slot that you'll plug the GPU into is 3.0 since it's controlled via the CPU and not chipset.
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Thats interesting, using a i7-4790K - just checked specs in Intel's site and indeed it states PCI-E 3.0 for the CPU but PCI-E 2.0 for H81.
Had a 1060 in similar setup a couple of years back and was getting quite decent performance. Hopefully new card will work equally well too.

But more of a casual Gamer these days so didn't want to invest in a whole new build.
 
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