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Old October 26, 2011, 06:26 PM
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hey everyone just been looking at motherboards and seen that there an asus z68 board for sale that supports pci 3.0 but could i use a pci 2.1 graphics card in that slot if i bought that mobo?

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Old October 26, 2011, 06:29 PM
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