i'm quite ignorant of hardware. I have an old pc with an old mobo, GIGABYTE GA-965P-DQ6, bought back in 2007. I don't know if it's a PCIE 1, I could not find any info on user manual. On the first page of user manual, says "Rev.3301", I'm not sure if that means rev. 3.0, as I tried google it popped up rev 1.0 and rev 3.0 for this mobo.
I used ATI RADEON HD 2900 XT card on this mobo, but the video card just went bad. I could not find the info if the card is pcie 1.0 either. My system has a power 850W and 8G DDR2. Intel CPU 2.4G. Please recommend a video card that compatible (PCIE 1.0?) with my mobo. nothing fancy, say within $100 range, just enough to run the pc is fine. I do NOT play games. only browse and youtube most of the time.
while googling, i've read on this forum and other places and understood that a pcie 2.0 will theoretically backward compatible with pcie 1.0. however, some people did get problems such as blank or black screen while put a pcie 2.0 video card on old mobo, then they need flash bios etc etc. i'm not sure if my old mobo can handle pcie 2.0, so i prefer to stick to a pcie 1.0 card if possible to avoid more headaches.
I checked AMD ATI web, it seems only HD5000 series and above that support the win10 drivers. if a card that could support win10, that's great, if not, fine too, I will keep running win 7 on it.
thank you in advance for your advice.
I used ATI RADEON HD 2900 XT card on this mobo, but the video card just went bad. I could not find the info if the card is pcie 1.0 either. My system has a power 850W and 8G DDR2. Intel CPU 2.4G. Please recommend a video card that compatible (PCIE 1.0?) with my mobo. nothing fancy, say within $100 range, just enough to run the pc is fine. I do NOT play games. only browse and youtube most of the time.
while googling, i've read on this forum and other places and understood that a pcie 2.0 will theoretically backward compatible with pcie 1.0. however, some people did get problems such as blank or black screen while put a pcie 2.0 video card on old mobo, then they need flash bios etc etc. i'm not sure if my old mobo can handle pcie 2.0, so i prefer to stick to a pcie 1.0 card if possible to avoid more headaches.
I checked AMD ATI web, it seems only HD5000 series and above that support the win10 drivers. if a card that could support win10, that's great, if not, fine too, I will keep running win 7 on it.
thank you in advance for your advice.
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