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Re: Can I use a PCI Express 2 card in a PCI express 1 slot?
« on: December 20, 2008, 08:49:00 PM »
Some cards are not physically backwards compatible from a lanes point of view.

i.e. you cannot put a 16x lane card in a 1x lane slot