Radeon 4850 question

[Wal-Mart Security]

I plan on buying the VisionTek Radeon 4850 here soon. It's a PCI x 16 2.0 card and my board has PCI x 16. I know it will work but I'm wondering how much performance decrease will I get?

Card:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814129112

My Current Board:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131011

(FYI, this is one of the first parts I'm buying for my new machine so I will get a board with PCI x 16 2.0 slots eventually)

 

[Captain Quirk -I|G-]

those are both the same link lol

 

[Arn0t]

lol yeah same link

 

[Wal-Mart Security]

There

 

[n00b-=Ketchup=-]

Im not sure what you mean, but that board is SLI, not crossfire.
Even if you only want 1 video card your going to want to go with a crossfire board just because of some compatibility issues that may pop up.

and as far as a performance decrease... none... its all compatible and ready to go, the only problem is the SLI and Crossfire thing,.

 

[chief]

the card will work but think of it like this your board only has 1 lane of traffic a 2.0 slot has 2 the 4850 on a x16 board would be like a 3870

 

[Havegooda {A|R}]

Chief, no.

Running PCI-e 1.X at 16x speed is exactly the same as PCI-e 2.0 in terms of performance. Current cards are just barely maxing out PCI-e 1.X 8x speeds, there's no way a single card can be bottlenecked with 16x bandwidth.

~Gooda~

 

[Wal-Mart Security]

Im not sure what you mean, but that board is SLI, not crossfire.
Even if you only want 1 video card your going to want to go with a crossfire board just because of some compatibility issues that may pop up.

and as far as a performance decrease... none... its all compatible and ready to go, the only problem is the SLI and Crossfire thing,.

I know its an SLI board and having 1 ATI card will NOT have any affect on it what so ever. The reason I was wondering if there would be a performace decrease is because its a PCI x 16 2.0 card and my board has only PCI x 16. But from what im hearing, I won't have any performance decrease at all
http://www.edgegamers.org/forums/showthread.php?t=37366



I talked to Duality about this as well, and he said the same thing Havegooda

 

[Dr. Rick Dagless M.D.]

current cards don't even use the x16 bandwidth fully. Just to say, my SLI mobo will not take any ATI hardware, at all, it locks up on me...Just saying.

 

[.7g]

Mostly the 2.0 grafics cards are downgrade able, but you wont get the best performence out of them....

 

[AWPerator]

I was under the impression that 2.0 cards are perfectly compatible with 2.0 slots.

 

[Havegooda {A|R}]

Mostly the 2.0 grafics cards are downgrade able, but you wont get the best performence out of them....

Please read the topic...

We haven't even maxed out PCI-e 1.x 16x bandwidth, there's no way a 2.0 card will be held back.

I was under the impression that 2.0 cards are perfectly compatible with 2.0 slots.

Huh?

~Gooda~

 

[Wal-Mart Security]

I was under the impression that 2.0 cards are perfectly compatible with 2.0 slots.

"Huh?" is right! If you read all of my first post you should have read that I my current board does NOT have PCI x16 2.0

 

[Cryptex]

Although very little about these forms of slots, I really think putting a 2.0 card into a regular X16 slot will have little decrease in terms of performance.