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New motherboard, old Graphics card

Riffing1964
Level 7
Hey Forum,

I am building a new pc using an ASUS B550M-Zaku AM4 motherboard. I am waiting a while until I can get a Graphics card at an affordable price. In the meantime, can I use my old card on the new motherboard? My existing card is a NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 (PCI 2.0 x 16), the motherboard uses PCIe 3.0 x 16, is the new motherboard backward compatible to the older spec?

Regards
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Baalberith_NL
Level 10
Hi Riffing,

Welcome to the forum. Yes, PCI 3.0 is backwards compatible, so it should give you no problems.
But regarding your new build..... it's time for a nice graphic card upgrade 😛

Greetings,

Remco
AMD 5900X
Asus Crosshair VIII Dark Hero
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Be Quiet Dark Power 12 Pro 1500Watt
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CoolerMaster C700M
Samsung G7 Odyssey 32inch

Baalberith_NL wrote:

But regarding your new build..... it's time for a nice graphic card upgrade 😛

Remco



Great, thanks for the advice .... new G-Card in the Spring.