On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Daniel Fussell <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, good to know. I'd wondered about that when I first started > looking. The materials I found at the time gave me the impression that > newer slots could support older cards, but the reverse was not > necessarily true.
In my personal experience, I have run into this; an older Athlon 64 board with a PCI-E 1.0 slot wouldn't accept a PCI-E 2.0 card. I don't know if this is always the case, but I wanted to let you know that I've seen it in person. Since the slots are physically identical, it seems like this issue might be solved with motherboard firmware updates, but I couldn't even explore that option, as the board was an Epox and they went under not long after I bought it. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
