Abit Fatal1ty AN8 PCI Slot question ?

Michael.T · 17 Jul 2008 at 11:37

HI All

I have a Abit Fatal1ty AN8 socket 939 motherboard

and I was wondering if I could drop one of the new ATI 4850 graphics boards in this board

because i know the new cards are PCI 2.0 but I am not sure what my boards pci slot is??
anybody know ??

many thanks

Michael

Vigoro · 17 Jul 2008 at 12:02

I think they are backwards compatible, just you wont get full performance of what you did with the PCI 2.0 port. No doubt it will be a PCI 1.1 or something you got on yours, what graphics card and cpu you got atm btw?

Michael.T · 17 Jul 2008 at 12:27

HIS Excalibur AtI X800XL and 3800 X2 AMD :mad:

Vigoro · 17 Jul 2008 at 12:29

Your CPU might hold the graphics card back a bit.

BUFF · 17 Jul 2008 at 14:00

PCI-E 2.0 cards are meant to be backward compatible & afaik there isn't 1 yet that needs more than the bandwidth available on x16 PCI-E 1.x

Michael.T · 17 Jul 2008 at 15:27

thanks for the answers guys

@Vigoro , yeah i know about CPU i was gonna build whole new system (Q6600 etc)
but got tempted by a 24" LCD LOL , now all me pennies are gone

would it be worth moving the cpu up a bit ??