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3.0 video cards will work fine in a 2.0/2.1 motherboard all that will happen is the cards bandwidth will be limited by the motherboard as a bottleneck if you will I doubt you would even notice the difference though

I just a couple weeks ago went looking into this. Does AMD even support true 3.0 yet? I know a couple TMN members have been neck deep in this recently and should reply soon.

I'm building a new desktop computer. I wasn't sure about how PCI Express 3.0 works. Right now the video cards im going to use are 2 Radeon HD 6850's. But in the future I would like to get a 7850 or better. I noticed the 7000 series cards say PCI Express 3.0. Does that mean that they require a motherboard with PCI Express 3.0, or they just take advantage of 3.0 if you have it but work with 2.0? I'm doing a AMD CPU build and I can't even find a motherboard that says it supports 3.0. Was just wondering about this. Thanks guys.

That's what I was wondering. It seems kind of weird AMD wouldn't have a chipset that could support it. My guess is that its backwards compatible with 2.0 it just doesn't move data as fast as 3.0. But yeah it would be nice to know for sure. Edit: Just saw TriRan's post. Thank you for the info man. That is what I was thinking. Glad to know though. And yeah I would think that the difference from 2.0 to 3.0 wont really make a difference for a while.

I run handbrake just fine on windows 7 x64 ultimate

Understood. I'm simply curious to see several tests from the central server which will certainly prove interesting results, which i do not think will reflect your latest / previous results.

What speed should your connection be ?

Ok, here is what I did last night: I did a bunch of tests in a row, on laptop, first wired directly to modem and then over WiFi. 25MB test download each time for both. Wired WiFi Start time 18:46 19:07 24.1MB/s 19.6MB/s 27.8 3.4 27.6 23.1 27.5 22.8 27.2 3.2 3.4 22.7 3.4 3.4 24.2 3.3 25 3.3 25.5 22.3 23.6 3.2 3.2 22.7 3.3 21.1 19.8 3.0 18.3 21.7 3.4 22.9 End time 18:55 19:18 sorry for format So can anyone make nay sense of this???

<p><p>You might want to check your dd-wrt settings , you did mention you were running this correct ?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>There are a lot of settings in that guy, so many that to understand and properly utilize them all you might need to have a degree ( self taught or not ) !</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I might get to the basics and chuck the router for a minute, reboot the modem and connect the machine directly. And only one machine for this test.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Run a traceroute to testmy.net, ping testmy.net ~</p><p>To ping a host... Windows Start > Run > type CMD [enter] > from the command prompt type ping google.com and/or ping testmy.net Linux / Mac Under Applications/Utilities open 'Terminal' > type ping google.com and/or ping testmy.net Paste those results here.</p><p>To run a traceroute... Windows Start > Run > type CMD [enter] > from the command prompt type tracert google.com and/or tracert testmy.net Linux / Mac Under Applications/Utilities open 'Terminal' > type traceroute google.com and/or traceroute testmy.net Paste those results here.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Then run a few tests, but use the central server only for this test.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>First simply run any test that is at least the cap of what you pay for, run this a couple times to see the consistency. Run the upload test as well from the central server , at least the cap of your upload, and run this a couple times to note the consitancy.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Please post the result, either copy/ paste the bbcode or html given after the test. As well as the ping and traceroute.</p><br /><br /><p>Hello forum bug --- ca3le please check html perms on special bbcode </p></p>