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July 7th, 2008 17:00

XPS 720 and the Nvidia 9800 GX2, will it work?

I've looked but can't find out if the XPS 720 motherboard is PCI-e 2.0 compliant or not. Will it run the 9800 GX2? What about the 280?

Any help is appreciated.

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Davet50
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Posted July 7th, 2008 17:00
It is not 2.0 compliant, but will run the card
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Posted July 8th, 2008 15:00
It will run the card, but won't the performance be degraded?

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Posted July 8th, 2008 16:00
I heard almost nothing happens if you put a 9800gx2 in a pci-e 16x slot performance wise
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Posted July 8th, 2008 16:00
Appearently, it will work, according to the box. However, the 8800 GTX was on sale for $300, so I got that instead and I'll be running it in SLI. I should notice a little boost in performance.
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Posted July 8th, 2008 20:00
I believe the gtx is a 2.0 card too. my GTS is 2.0 but runs just fine. maybe a slight difference but to me not noticable and i could really care less about benchmark scores.
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Posted July 8th, 2008 21:00
All is working fine. Got the bridge hooked up and it's tuned to SLI mode. They always say two are better than one. Thanks.