Are the new PCI Express 2.0 graphics cards compatable with PCI Express 1.0 computers?

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Yes, absolutely. The PCI Express folks did a good job with this.

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PCIe 2.0 is backward and forward compatible with PCIe v1.x. PCI Express 2.0 has good backwards compatibility, new PCIe 2.0 graphics cards are compatible with PCIe 1.1 motherboards, meaning that they will run on them using the available bandwidth of PCI Express 1.1. Overall, graphic cards or motherboards designed for v2.0 will be able to work with the other being v1.1 or v1.0.
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I was planning on buying a new graphics card and i noticed that they are all 2.0 now, So just to be on the safe side i wanted to know if they were backwards compatable.

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