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Graphics card question

Started by jst42day , May 09 2008 08:05 PM

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jst42day

Posted 09 May 2008 - 08:05 PM

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I was just at the Newegg site and noticed that some of the ATI 3970 cards specify PCI 2.0 x16.
What do they mean?
Do I need a specific type of mobo to use this spec?
Or is the spec backwards compatible?
Thanks.
jst42day