Well, That sucks, was just told that the brand new video card that I was advised to buy, as a replacement for my old one is PCI-3, and my MB is PCI-2.
So I have a R9 290, that I cant use till I upgrade my MB
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Well, That sucks, was just told that the brand new video card that I was advised to buy, as a replacement for my old one is PCI-3, and my MB is PCI-2.
So I have a R9 290, that I cant use till I upgrade my MB
I have my updated system specs loaded, in case you want to check them out,
as for the small switch, I am still looking for that
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No need to change MB, any PCI-e 3.0 GPU will work on 2.0 and 1.0 slots.
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Exactly which model and make do you have
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Yes, my pc wont stay on for more than 5 mins before crashing. 1st time I installed it, when it crashed windows was still booting up, so when I restarted my pc something in windows was corrupted, so I had to reinstall windows.
I sent it back to where I got it at no charge, they tested it, then sent it back.
So I tried it again , when I got it back, only to have it crash again (and by crash, I mean lock up completely, and give the blue screen of death, I hadn't seen it before in win7), this time it just… See More
corrupted my sound drivers.
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No such thing. All PCIe 3.0 cards are compatible with PCIe 2.0 and backwards. You cna use R9 290 on your mobo. They are compatible.
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Sorry to hear that. I had a similar issue with motherboard incompatibility, back when I was building my rig. Even though the one I had bought was supposed to be compatible, turns out it was completely outdated, and probably why it was so cheap. Luckily a friend of mine gave me a much better one, so everything runs well again with my 290x.
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No worries, your 290 will work great in a 2.0 slot. Are you having any issues with it?
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