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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.
 
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 :(
 
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.
 
I'm using ASRock-VG4: link

As you can see it's only got 2 slots, so only one slot the Graphics Card will actually fit into. This Board is relatively new iteration based on an old chipset. You guys may or may not be familiar with it possibly could have only been released in low-cot markets. I bought it replace a dead Gigabyte B85 Board. Anyway it's rock-solid works very well.

Just to make you all familiar with my situation I retired around 5 years ago and left the UK. I'm now an expat living in Goa.
 
Received the Card. NVIDIA SI showing PCI Express x8 Gen2. GPU-Z shows the same info.

However Card is working well. Forza 4 plays perfect locked @ 60FPS (Ultra settings). Visuals are very good and game runs smooth, much better than on 1060 and 1650 I had used previously.

Card suits my needs for now, will consider upgrading next year to Alder Lake and NVIDIA 4 series card.
 
Quartz said:
Great news. And you now know that you've got plenty of performance in hand once you upgrade your motherboard.
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Ya, getting tempted but can wait. Only this time will research properly make sure I choose top-end chipset MB and make sure Graphics card I choose to get runs properly @ x16 - not a gimped one.
 
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