pcie question

fjjbnjn

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Would there be a significant speed loss if I put a pcie 3.0 gpu into a pcie 1.0 slot? I'm doing a budget build, and would like to get as cheap of a motherboard as possible, possibly even reuse an old one I find laying around if it has the right socket. The gpu I'd be using would probably be a 750 ti 2gb, maybe sc.
 
Each PCIE version is roughly double the bandwidth.

A 16x PCIE2.0 slot would be equivalent to an 8x PCIE3.0 slot.
A 16x PCIE1 slot would be equivalent to a 4x PCIE3.0 or 8x PCIE2.0

You likely won't exhibit any performance loss.
 
It will be fine but just don't overclock it. The PCIe 1.0 slot can only provide 75W and the card is 60W stock.
 
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