How do I know if I have PCI Express 2.0 or not?

Bluehotdog5

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I was looking to buy a new video card, and I had my eyes on MSI GTX 570 here, and I was wondering how I can find out if my motherboard supports 2.0 or not.
This is my motherboard here. I bought it with a bare bone kit a while back. It doesn't say whether or not it supports PCI-E 2.0 or not. It just say's PCI-E x16. The video card it came with was I think a radeon 4350, which is 2.0 according to newegg. Is there any way visually to tell what kind it is?

I'm probably being overly cautious I know, especially being that newegg only has 3 regular PCI express cards. But is there any surefire way of knowing what pci version I have?
 
You have 2.0 16x on the top slot.

If you put a 570 in a gen 1 slot it would essentially half the bandwidth available to the card.

Easiest way to tell is use GPU-Z with a card running in the top slot.
 
I knew there was a program for that. I've used GPU-Z before, but I couldn't remember the name.

Under bandwidth it says 8 gb per second, which according to wikipedia is PCI-E 2.0. Thank's for the help :D
 
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