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Are PCIe 2.0 & SATA-II backward compatable?

5 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/are-pcie-2-0-sata-ii-backward-compatable.75818/

Arun the Gr8
Arun the Gr8 Original post #1
Dec 15, 2007 at 11:09 PM
I am planning to buy the graphics card ATI HD3850 and a 250 GB HDD. Since the card and the HDD have PCIe 2.0 and SATA-II connectors, so I wanted to know whether the are backward compatable with the older PCIe 1.0 and SATA technology; since my motherboard MSI RS482M2-IL supports only these standards.
Pathik
Pathik #3
Dec 15, 2007 at 11:22 PM
yup but at the cost of performance.
Arun the Gr8
Arun the Gr8 #4
Dec 15, 2007 at 11:29 PM
pathiks said:
yup but at the cost of performance.
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how much will b d performance loss in case of GPU?
j1n M@tt
j1n M@tt #5
Dec 15, 2007 at 11:51 PM
Arun the Gr8 said:
how much will b d performance loss in case of GPU?
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Not much loss..........u will get 30% increase in performance only if u haf d new RS740 chipset(or its equivalent 7xx mainstream chipset) based mobo.


And I think MSI RS482M2-IL supports SATA-II