Question on I3-3220 with PCI 3.0

[sorvantis]

Will an I3-3220 with a PCI 3.0 card simply fail, or will it just work at 2.0 speeds?

 

[CDdude55]

A PCI-E 3.0 card will work in a 2.0 slot, but yes at half the bandwidth. Granted this still does not matter as GPU's are still are unable to fully take advantage of PCI-E 2.0 bandwidth.

 

[User4798]

i3 3220 is pci express 3.0 compatible so it'll work perfectly.

 

[payturr]

Buddy, whatchu talkin' 'bout?
That Core i3 model is an Ivy Bridge CPU, which has the PCI-e 3.0 controller built in, so you can use the PCI-e 3.0 card as the latest bandwidth IF you have a 3.0 slot. If you put it in a 2.0 slot, you're out of luck.

 

[shaun_shaun]

pci-e 3 is backward compatible with pci-e 2 ..

anyway i3 3220 doesn't support pci-e 3 . it supports pci-e 2 ..
http://ark.intel.com/products/65693/Intel-Core-i3-3220-Processor-%283M-Cache-3_30-GHz%29
but that doesn't matter, you won't notice any performance increase with pci-e 3 unless you using high end gpus with crossfire/SLI
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2012/07/18/pci_express_20_vs_30_gpu_gaming_performance_review/2

 

[payturr]

Huh, always thought they all support it, interesting. Way to cheap out again, Intel. -__-
But either way, it's not like it's TOTALLY DIFFERENT.