PCI express 1.0 vs. PCI express 2.0

[bsn1989]

Hi everybody, I just bought a Dell Precision 670 Workstation. 2 2.8 Xeons with 3GB of DDR2 400 and a weak PCI Express 1.0 128mb ATI card. I wanna know how compatible PCI Express 2.0 is with PCI Express 1.0. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150316 I wanna buy this card so I can play some decent games on it. I also was wondering if it was too much juice because the PCI Express slot on the board supports cards up to 150 watts. Thanks guys

 

[Special7]

2.0 will work fine in a 1.0 board.

 

[ratbuddy]

Does the PSU have a 6 pin PCIe connector? If not you'll have to use an adapter which is kinda sketchy IMHO. Also, are those the old P4 type Xeons? If so you might run into issues running 'decent games' on the thing to begin with

 

[bsn1989]

Thanks a lot guys! I appreciate it! Yeah they are pretty much p4 Xeons but still im looking at BF2 and UT2003. in my eyes those are "decent" games And no my PSU does not have a six pin PCIe connector.

 

[bsn1989]

Actually scratch that guys, i DO have a six pin PCIe connector on my PSU Yay!

 

[ratbuddy]

Actually scratch that guys, i DO have a six pin PCIe connector on my PSU Yay!

While that's good news, for the cash, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814162007 is probably a better idea for such an old system

 

[bsn1989]

While that's good news, for the cash, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814162007 is probably a better idea for such an old system

Wow thats actually really nice, that is very tempting btw! Thanks for the find! One more thing guys, I know this isn't the exact spot to be discussing this but, should I go RAID or not on this thing?

 

[Cuiiey]

Yeah deffinately, go raid 0 for speed or raid 1. With raid 0 if one hdd dies then all data is lost so i would recondmend raid 1 but if it is speed you are looking for...