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So will the 9800gtx be backwards compatible regarding PCI-E 1.1/1.0 ?

Is it a general thing that PCI-E2.0 cards won't work in PCI-E1.0, or is this one of the G92 rumours going around?
 
Well the p35 Asus boards have the pci-e 1.1 and 1.0. The top slot being the 1.1 and the bottom being 1.0

With Asus latests P35 gaming boards, the Blitz Extreme and Blitz Formula, which are using an IDT chip to give you two x8 PCI Express slots instead of the normal x16 and x4 configuration of the P35 chipset, a problem has occured on the Asus FAQ.

It seems that the second slot is PCI Express 1.0/1.0a only and according to Asus, this older PCI Express standard isn't compatible with PCI Express 2.0.

The primary slot is PCI Express 1.1 and it doesn't have this problem as this version of PCI Express is compatible with the upcoming 2.0 standard.

So what's the significance of this? Well, it means that you won't be able to use newer PCI Express 2.0 cards with several motherboard, not just these ones, as if your board has a 1.0 or 1.0a PCI Express slot, a PCI Express 2.0 card won't work in those slots.

So much for the new standard being backwards compatible...
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http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2499&Itemid=34
http://support.asus.com/faq/faq.aspx?no=DE05A01F-3A3B-A859-177B-6A668A2D6982&SLanguage=en-us
 
ergonomics said:
i hate asus

edit: and over half of my hardware is made by them! scum
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Dude your probally find that most board manufacutueres are doing this. PCI-E 1.1 on the top slot and PCI-E 1.0 on the bootom slot if the board has Two PCI-E slots. Its just ASUS so quit with the childish whinning. :p
 
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stickroad said:
Dude your probally find that most board manufacutueres are doing this. PCI-E 1.1 on the top slot and PCI-E 1.0 on the bootom slot if the board has Two PCI-E slots. Its just ASUS so quit with the childish whinning.
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OMG you need to relax man im joking. jeeeeez. from now on im gona plaster :p:p:p in my posts where im joking coz some people have problems getting it
 
Does anyone know if the Asus A8N-SLI is 1.0 or 1.1?

ASUS just refer to it as "PCI Express" on their site and documentation.

I could be upgrading my mobo, cpu and memory also this November it seems :D
 
and I was just wondering if the P5B is 1.1?
Again, Asus just list it as being x16 PCI-E.

I've been waiting for the GeForce9 series to come out before I upgrade, but I won't be getting a 9 series if I need a new Mobo too ;)

V1N.
 
stickroad said:
Guys i think your find all boards main PCI-E slot is PCI-E 1.1.
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All modern boards yes, not all. For example the 975x is 1.0

snowdog said:
Anyone got any idea of the intel 945p ?
Asus p5ld2 here and rly want a 9800GTX as my next card.
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According to the whitepaper on intel, your board only has 1.0a, so it doesn't look like it will support it.
 
killer_uk said:
All modern boards yes, not all. For example the 975x is 1.0
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DAMN THEM(nvidia & asus) :mad:, that was supposed to be my next mobo because of the great backwards support ( ability for lower than 1:1 multi's on ram, 2x ide, ich7r for raid transfer) and good modern support ( c2q, c2d, etc...), grrrrr so now im forced to do a damn upgrade of practicly everything ( ram, hdd: need something temporary to backup my raid array on, and I don't have anything, and because i've got 3 ide hdd's and 2 ide burners, I can just aswell throw both burners away and bury one of my hdd's :mad: ) because the ******** of asus couldn't equip their boards with a normall future proof pci-e slot :mad:.


/end rant


Why oh why is there no good overclocking board with nice ide support, nice slow ram support, core 2 quad support and 9800gtx support (and a nice ich7r southbridge goody wich would make transfering raid easy for me) ?
 
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snowdog said:
DAMN THEM(nvidia & asus) :mad:, that was supposed to be my next mobo because of the great backwards support ( ability for lower than 1:1 multi's on ram, 2x ide, ich7r for raid transfer) and good modern support ( c2q, c2d, etc...), grrrrr so now im forced to do a damn upgrade of practicly everything ( ram, hdd: need something temporary to backup my raid array on, and I don't have anything, and because i've got 3 ide hdd's and 2 ide burners, I can just aswell throw both burners away and bury one of my hdd's :mad: ) because the ******** of asus couldn't equip their boards with a normall future proof pci-e slot :mad:.


/end rant


Why oh why is there no good overclocking board with nice ide support, nice slow ram support, core 2 quad support and 9800gtx support (and a nice ich7r southbridge goody wich would make transfering raid easy for me) ?
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Absolutely not their fault, welcome to computers :)
 
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