Mother Board Help

[Jaswanth Chowdary]

I am planning on upgrading my PC so i selected the required components
Processor:AMD FX 8350
GPU:Sapphire Radeon R9 270 Vapor-X
RAM:Corsair Vengance 16GB 2X8 GB
Hard Disk:WD Black 1 TB
Motherboard:Asus Crosshair Formula V

the question is Does the motherboard support a PCI 3.0 GPU
For Specs of Mother Board Check this link http://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/CROSSHAIR_V_FORMULA/specifications/
For Specs of GPU check the link http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/product/?cid=1&gid=3&sgid=1227&pid=2206&psn=&lid=1&leg=0#

Please Someone provide the answer

 

[Emerald]

the video card will work but only at PCIe2.0 speed

 

[Jaswanth Chowdary]

could you elobrate it Emerald

 

[bobbintb]

PCIe is backwards compatible. Your board is PCIe 2.0 and your GPU is PCIe 3.0. Since it is backwards compatible, your PCIe 2.0 motherboard will support a GPU that is PCIe 3.0 but the GPU will basically fallback to PCIe 2.0 mode to maintain compatibility.