Will I notice a performance difference between the PCI and PCIe versions of this card?
1366305
You should see no difference between the two versions of the card. The maximum speed of the connection is 1000mbps, or one gigabit, which translates to about 125 megabytes per second. The maximum bandwidth of the PCI bus can transfer at about 133 megabytes per second. However, the connection speed to the internet is most likely not limited by any connection within your house, but from your house to your Internet Service Provider (ISP). If you already have an ethernet port on your computer, this card would most likely not perform any better for connecting to the internet, but it might perform better if you are trying to transfer files to another PC or a server on your local network.
1462895
It says that it takes up to Power Consumption up to 75W no additional PCIe power required. And from what I read in PC Mag your PC consumes about 70 Watts under Load so if you don't have multiple Hard drives or Using alot of USB devices you should be good with this card with your power supply. Here is the article I found in PC Mag. From what I read I would say yes it would work fine. But the PC is getting a little outdated to so I don't know how much performance you would see from this card. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2255115,00.asp
851712
if both cards are using the same and drivers there should be little compatibility problems between like model cards.
1379882
So far there is no performance lost with using it in a PCI 2.0. If you maybe spent $300 or so on a new motherboard with all the new stuff then there might be a performance lost mainly because of the possibility of boosted speed in the PCI 3.0. So to sum it up. You should be fine
1057581
I don't know,it never worked for me. I crapped canned it and got a Nvidia GTX 660. I am VERY happy with it. I got the ASUS OC edition. I had used ATI/AMD almost exclusively until this card. I got the ol shove it from AMD. I'll never buy AMD again. I would say skip this card.
1306210
There is no difference. That's the same motherboard. I bought it less than a year ago and it works great. No issues yet.
1379880
-Very minimal performance loss if ANY at all will be seen. I have posted this sites testing results that are specifically tailored to this question as well as the link to the full article that is easy to read and understand in layman's terms. I also provides comprehensive graphs showing the tests results. "Conclusion: Our testing has pretty clearly shown that for gaming using either PCI-E 2.0 or PCI-E 3.0 will give you nearly identical performance. Oddly, in some benchmarks PCI-E 2.0 was actually faster than PCI-E 3.0. At the same time, x16 was not consistantly faster than x8. Again, x8 was actually faster than x16 in many cases. So unless you care about getting up to 1.5 FPS better performance, you might actually want to manually set your video cards to operate at x8 speeds - although we really would not recommend doing so. This isn't to say that PCI-E 3.0 is not faster than PCI-E 2.0, or that x16 is the same as x8, but rather that current video cards and games are simply not able to utilize the additional bandwidth they provide. In fact, we recently showed that the performance of a Xeon Phi card is greatly reduced if you run it at x8 speeds in the blog post Performance of Xeon Phi on PCIe x8. While we recommend using the latest PCI-E revision whenever possible, if your motherboard or video card only supports PCI-E 2.0 our results show that this really is not a problem. At the same time, if you want to install a sound card into your Z87 system but doing so would limit your video card to x8 speeds, that is also not a very big problem. At most you may see ~1.5 FPS drop in performance, but that change is so small that it is very unlikely to ever be noticeable." For the full article here: http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Impact-of-PCI-E-Speed-on-Gaming-Performance-518/
2180778
Not at all. It uses PCI 2.1 so make sure your motherboard provides that. It runs super cool!
333364
Yes this card is much faster than your card, its pci 3.0, memory is 5800mhz, has 1280 stream processors. its just faster
2223324
it does not work on PCI slot, but if you mean PCIE 1.0, then its maximum speed will be 2.5Gbps. Even you have x8 lanes, but this card only use 1x lane.
2109080
They are not the same card. This is the fully factory over clocked running at a clock of 1080Mhz and men at 5600Mhz. The other card has slower clocks. The clocks are higher because the chokes are better, and the chips were binned higher on this card. Check the serials if you want to confirm this. The OC potential is thus higher on this card.
1764497
There is a difference. You'll notice that the other card you mention trades out the extra fan for slightly higher clock speeds. Your choice is whether or not you want less fan noise, a cooler card and more overclocking headroom, or the slight advantage of a few MHz in clock speed.
726342
More than likely it will because the heatsink is huge! On one of my mobo there are two PCIe 1x slots so it didn't effect me but on my other two machines I lost the use of one of my PCI slots.
1096452
It's PCI, not PCI-e. It makes a big difference if you only have PCI-e slots, but I do not believe it matters for performance. I use it in a demanding application and it works very well. Also, if you go to the HT Omega website, I believe they sell a PCI-e audio card: http://www.htomega.com/eclaro.html
737936
Yes. The PCIe 3.0 spec is backwards compatible, however there may be some minimal performance loss over a Gen 3 slot.
71411
I wouldn't know the bare bone of if it is better, I do know it's one of the top 5-ish cards for low-profile computers, so it's almost a guarenteed it'll be a major improvement, especially for an older card, as long as you have the preferred RAM of the card.
2189677
I'm running a 2.something card so I'm not 100% sure. If it doesn't say so in the specs I'd keep looking for one that specifies 3.0