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Need a mid range graphics card Must be PCI-E 1.0 16x

mds1256

mds1256

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Any idea what is compatible with PCI-E 1.0 16x port.

Needs to be around £50 ish?

All i can see are PCI-E 2.0 cards which wont work.

Thanks
 
Hi there,

PCI-E 2.0 cards should be fully backwards compatible with PCI-E 1.0 motherboards. A lot of people here are running older PCI-E 1.x montherboards with much newer PCI-E 2.0/2.1 cards.

As for which card to go for, may I ask what you will be mainly using it for (older games, new games, CAD, HD video playing etc.) and what are the specs of your existing system?
 
£50 won't really give you a mid range card, it may get you a semi decent 2nd hand gaming card though. For that price I guess something along the lines of a second hand 5770 1GB would be a good bet.
 
Strange that 2.0 should work in 1.0 as the motherboard didnt seem to like it.

No video output from the spare graphics card.

The label on the motherboard said PCI-E1 16x. but I had a spare GeForce GTX 280 and wouldnt work.

Computer seemed to fire up and got the POST beep but no graphics. I did have the extra power cable plugged in but the card seemed to have 2 power sockets one bigger then the other.

Not that clued up on graphics cards.

Any idea why it wouldnt work. The card that came out was a 8800GT but went faulty in that would work fine with default PCI driver (windows) but as soon at you put the proper NVidia driver on it would bomb out. Tried card in a spare PC and was exactly the same.


Machine plays WoW (not mine its a friends.). Spec is a core 2 duo, 2gb ram. Not totally amazing and only used for WoW
 
No mate not all pci 2.0 work in pci 1.0

i got a 5770 a while back which forced me to upgrade my whole computer

IIRC it seemed to be limited to motherboards which used a nforce 400 chipset
 
mds1256 said:
Computer seemed to fire up and got the POST beep but no graphics. I did have the extra power cable plugged in but the card seemed to have 2 power sockets one bigger then the other.
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Yea, you need both power connections (often a 6 pin and 8 pin or two 6 pins) plugged into the graphics card from the PSU or it won't work properly.

mds1256 said:
Any idea why it wouldnt work. The card that came out was a 8800GT but went faulty in that would work fine with default PCI driver (windows) but as soon at you put the proper NVidia driver on it would bomb out. Tried card in a spare PC and was exactly the same.
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I'm not sure about that one, it could well have been a faulty card. Have you tried it in any other machines?

May I ask what the spare card was that you tried? Does your board have onboard graphics you can use as a backup and for testing?

Also, to be clear the 8800GT is a PCI-E v2.0 card - so if it was working OK before then your motherboard probably doesn't have any particular issues with newer cards.

mds1256 said:
Machine plays WoW (not mine its a friends.). Spec is a core 2 duo, 2gb ram. Not totally amazing and only used for WoW
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Sorry, I should have clarified, may I ask the specific make and model numbers of your motherboard and PSU?
 
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The GTX 280 card has both a 6 pin and 8 pin, does both of these power connectors need connecting or will it just work with a 6 pin or two 6 pin connectors.

Yeah tried it in another machine and same problems with the 8800GT so i reckon its the card.

motherboard is a foxconn 45cmx

not sure on the psu as the computer is back with my friend but i know it is a 500w psu.



The spare card is a GTX280 but doesnt seem to work, possibly because of the power connectors?
 
Yea, you need both 6 pin and 8 pin plugs connected for the card to work properly - it is a very power hungry card.

If the PSU doesn't have any 8 pin PCI-E connections, then you can use one of these cables with a 6 pin PCIE power cable from the PSU. However, make sure you check the make and model number of the PSU - since the GTX 280 is a high-end and power hungry card - it would require a good quality 500W PSU to run stably.
 
cmndr_andi said:
Yea, you need both 6 pin and 8 pin plugs connected for the card to work properly - it is a very power hungry card.

If the PSU doesn't have any 8 pin PCI-E connections, then you can use one of these cables with a 6 pin PCIE power cable from the PSU. However, make sure you check the make and model number of the PSU - since the GTX 280 is a high-end and power hungry card - it would require a good quality 500W PSU to run stably.
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Perfect!

Will give this ago, that is obviously why it isnt working as I only connected the 1x 6 pin power plug as it didnt have one with 8 pins but that cable will do the job nicely.

Thank you for being so helpful :)
 
Bobmunkhouse said:
Are pci 3.0 cards compatible with pci 1.0 boards?
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Some PCI-E 1.0 boards will probably be able to run 3.0 cards however I'm guessing most systems with PCI-E 1.0 will bottleneck a 3.0 card (unless it's an overclocked Q9X50 chip and a game which isn't too CPU intensive maybe).
 
Redmint said:
Some PCI-E 1.0 boards will probably be able to run 3.0 cards however I'm guessing most systems with PCI-E 1.0 will bottleneck a 3.0 card (unless it's an overclocked Q9X50 chip and a game which isn't too CPU intensive maybe).
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I'm thinking of my Q6600 as it still seems fine.....would maybe get a mid range new gen card....
 
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