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9600GT in 4x slot

Is this for an Asrock motherboard with a VIA chipset by any chance? If so, no, it wont work out of the box. The older VIA chipsets don't support PCI-E 2.
 
Should be ok, you dont need a pci-e 2 slot it will run fine in a 1.1x slot.

Also i had a 9600GT and according to gpu-z it wasnt pci-e 2.0 anyway :)
 
MeatLoaf said:
Also i had a 9600GT and according to gpu-z it wasnt pci-e 2.0 anyway :)
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Peculiar - this is quoted from nvidia's 96GT page:

Nvidia.com said:
PCI Express 2.0 Support

Designed to run perfectly with the new PCI Express 2.0 bus architecture, offering a future-proofing bridge to tomorrow’s most bandwidth-hungry games and 3D applications by maximizing the 5 GT/s PCI Express 2.0 bandwidth (twice that of first generation PCI Express). PCI Express 2.0 products are fully backwards compatible with existing PCI Express motherboards for the broadest support.
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jrodga2k5 said:
PCI Express 2.0 products are fully backwards compatible with existing PCI Express motherboards for the broadest support.
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It's backwards compatible with PCI-E 1.1, but the older VIA chipsets are v1.0 and spit the dummy if you try to run a PCI-E 2.0 card.
 
Should be ok but if ots only for a couple of monitors id get the cheapest card you can such a 8400GS, no need to spend on a 9600GT
 
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