Its saying that the board has a x16 and a x1 (short) slot. Anyway, thanks for your input, russiangangsta. I guess I thought that there were more problems that there were with the 8800GTs. Next step is to email MSI and see what rev. the PCIe is in that board (hopefully not a 1.0a). Signing off...
Generally speaking, yes, you're right. Wikipedia: PCIe 2.0 is completely backwards compatible with PCIe v1.x. Graphic cards and motherboards designed for v2.0 will be able to work with v1.1 and v1.0, and vice versa. In some rare cases it is possible that a PCI-E 2.0 card will not work correctly on a PCI-E 1.0a slot. This is only limited to certain video cards. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express#PCI_Express_2.0 It would be really nice if MSI had the PCIe
I probably need to email MSI.
First link above. http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=K8NGM2-FID FYI, The great thread at anandtech on this board doesn't help at all. http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=29&threadid=1803985
Hmmm.... maybe I need to do some more investigating, then. A few months back, I was searching about this to see if there were issues with this MB, but couldn't find anything. However, most people who bought this board used it for HTPC, so I'm not certain that too many would be looking at the 8800GT anyway.
Yeah, the 8800GT would be nice at $150, but I've heard that there's been issues with the 8800GT (first PCI-E 2.0) with early PCI-E boards. I think this MB is a 1.0 (one of the first MBs with PCI-E, MSI doesn't even say the version). I don't want to re-do the whole system (socket 939) at this point. Just saw that there's a 8600 GTS BFG card at $110 + shipping (best prices for name brands were ~$135 last week), so not a bad deal to extend the life of this system. http://www.newegg.com
cammy987, I'm running XP on an integrated 6150 using 128 MB of system memory for the framebuffer ([link="http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=K8NGM2-FID"]WWW Link[/link]) On this board, the system uses another 128 MB of virtual memory for a total of 256 MB for video. Other specs: AMD 3800x2 (2GHz), 1GB RAM (2x512). According to the first post [link="http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=29&threadid=1803985"]WWW Link[/link], the scores for this conf
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