I'm looking to upgrade my gaming rig a lil bit, to adjust for crysis, UT3, and starcraft 2. To give some backround info right now I've got an Asus M2N-E SLI mobo, 3 gigs of dual channel pc6400, amd x2 2.1ghz, and an XFX 8600 GT. They no longer make my XFX 8600 GT model, mine was 256mb DDR3. The only 8600 256MB ddr3 they have now is a completely new model, without a fan, and with a heatsink, so I'm not sure if that'd be compatible in SLI. So I've decided I want to upgrade to an 8800.
This being said, on Tigerdirect all the 8800s are now PCI-E 2.0. I'm pretty sure my mobo can't run pci-e 2.0 so what I have heard is that it is backwards compatible, and it will run it in pci-e 1.0. If this is the case, is it really worth buying the 8800 then? Because if it downgrades it, then do I get better performance than my 8600? Let me know please and thanks. Thresh25
This being said, on Tigerdirect all the 8800s are now PCI-E 2.0. I'm pretty sure my mobo can't run pci-e 2.0 so what I have heard is that it is backwards compatible, and it will run it in pci-e 1.0. If this is the case, is it really worth buying the 8800 then? Because if it downgrades it, then do I get better performance than my 8600? Let me know please and thanks. Thresh25