Motherboard PCIE specs

[sostrow28]

I have a 3 year old Blitz Extreme DDR3 MoBo. What is the PCIe specs on it? I want to put a GTZ460 on it.

[xeromist]

CrossFire: x8, x8 mode; single card: x16 mode

that what you want to know?

[sostrow28]

I was able to find that info, but what I also need is what spec or version (1.0, 1.0a, 2.0.2.1,etc)

[xeromist]

I've seen 2.0 mentioned on at least one site but the lack of a 2.0 designation everywhere tells me it's likely 1.0. It won't matter with a GTX460 though. The card is backwards compatible and won't even saturate 1.0.

[sostrow28]

Great. Thanks for your help xer0.

[sostrow28]

One more question afterall. For better performance can I run two cards in SLI config? The board has two x16 slots. I have heard that the cards will actually run in x8 mode and that is too unstable for these cards. I am aware that the board has a "splitter chip" that does this. Can this be avoided? I'm just trying to find the best possible performance setup.

[xeromist]

I'm not sure what you've heard about stability as dropping down to x8 is VERY common on many boards. Even many mid-lower end i7 boards still do this. x8 is not likely to be a bottleneck and even if it were you would still get more of a performance boost out of the SLI than you would lose due to sharing the bus bandwidth.