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PCI-E 2.0 video card in a PCI-X slot Will it work?

By jgregory · 12 years ago

I have an older workstation with a Super Micro X5DAL-TG2 Dual Xeon Mother board. I am currently using and AGP vieo Card (Matrox Parhelia) I need to upgrade the video. The card I am looking at uses a PCI-E 2.0 slot. My mother board only has an available 64 bit 100MHz PCI-X slot. WIll the video card work in this slot?

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No it will not work in that Slot

by OH Smeg Moderator · 12 years ago In reply to PCI-E 2.0 video card in a ...

You need to use either a AGP or PCI Video Card with AGP being the better option. :)

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