confused???

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I am putting together a system from various sources it consists of the following

core 2 duo 6600

2 gig Patriot PC2-8500

80gig boot....320 Barracuda data --drives

Antec 500w ps

Dvd burner

Visiontek HD 2400pro pci

XP pro

all this is on an Asus PB5 board

I know this is not a killer /dream system,  I have $355.00 invested and its a strrech so far but my wife has offered to buy me a new video card to add to the system.


My real concern is with the video card I know it is a low cost alternative.....I was thinking of replacing the video card with either a Visiontek HD 3870 oc edition or a  XFX-BFG9600gt,,,however on the boxes of the video cards it states that it is PCI Express 2.0 is this compatible with my motherboard?   Is this a bios setting or hardware standard?   Will it run full speed on my system or be bottlenecked? Or would I be better off with another card all together??

I would appreciate any help if anyone knows


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[BaldEagl]

Yes, it will work fine.  None of the PCIe 2.0 cards take full  advantage of the PCIe 2.0 slots YET.  I'm sure that will change but for now you're ok.

[Getback]

Id use the E8400 but there is nothing wrong with that chp. E8400 has more instructions and runs graphics better.