pci-e 2.0

[ih8modem]

I understand that you will cripple a GTX280 in a PCI-e v1.1 slot, so I am going to need to upgrade my motherboard.

I currently have a Gigabyte P965DS3, which I think is only PCI-e 1.1 (any utils out there to tell me for sure?)

I dont know which boards have PCI-e 2 and which don't. Not all boards have it in their descriptions.

I have another board already for my 4870 x-fire setups, the Asus Maximus Formula, but even that does not say it's PCI-e v2 ?

The board for the GTX280 I would prefer to think SLi in the future, but for now its a single card. I have read bad things about the 750/780/790 boards, and they also seem to be rather expensive for what you get. Should I go P45 now and think upgrading later, perhaps when nehalem is out?

Or should I ditch the gtx280 entirely, play with the 4870's and wait for the next gen ?

Man I wish they would make SLI/X-fire work on the same damned board.

 

[easyrider]

Why do you need a GTX 280 if you already have Xfire 4870?

You are either very rich or very silly.


All x38 ,x48 P45 mobos are PCI-E 2.0.

 

[Defiance_co]

Your asus maximus formula has both pcie slots running @ 16x pcie v2

 

[Deleted member 66701]

And running a 280 in a 1.1 slot will not "cripple" it.

I had my 4870 in an Asus Commando (p965, pci-x v1.0a) and it only scored 5% less than in my new Asus Maximus Formula (pcix- v2.0) which frankly is withing the margin of error anyhow as the Commando was at 9*400fsb and the Maximus @ 8x450fsb.