i have Gigabyte GA-E7AUM-DS2H motherboard and it have PCI-E x 16 slot. if i want to buy nvidia GeForce GTX 470 graphic card, this card requires PCI-E 2.0 x 16 slot. Can i able to use this card in my gigabyte motherboard.....
i have Gigabyte GA-E7AUM-DS2H motherboard and it have PCI-E x 16 slot. if i want to buy nvidia GeForce GTX 470 graphic card, this card requires PCI-E 2.0 x 16 slot. Can i able to use this card in my gigabyte motherboard.....
Yes it will work.
PCIe x16 2.0 is just double the bandwidth ofa a normal PCIe x 16
You will be able to play games very well...but considering u have PCIe x16 with half the data flow will throttle your card.
Basically, it will perform at half its potential.
I'd recommend that you get a new motherboard with 2.0 PCIe on it. Core 2 MOBO's are fairly cheap
Note, those articles use a PCI-E 2.0 MB, even so, at 4x the bandwidth is still only equal to PCI-E 1.0 at 8x!
It is far more likely, given the CPUs that the motherboard can support that that will be the limiting factor, rather than PCI-E bandwidth.