I have a 3 year old PC with a Asus Striker Extreme. My Geforce 8800 GTS has just decided to die. Even worse I bought it from Komplett.co.uk so if it's still on warranty, the process is going to be an utter pain (komplett uk went out of business a while ago).
I'm fighting an urge to purchase a completely new build right now and instead just replace the graphics card. I think my Striker Extreme only supports PCI express 1.0. If I stick a more recent PCI-E 2.0 graphics card in there am I going to have problems? I've read that 2.0 cards are backwards compatible and this would be a step towards a full rebuild at a later date. I'm thinking a GTX 460 as that's what's recommended as being good value in this months PCGamer.


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). The only issues I could forsee with your 520W power supply are: 1) if it's a generic / non-brand / OEM PSU (the quality might not be great and the capacity might be overstated), 2) depending on how old it is it might be a bit light on the 12V rails (older PSUs tend to be heavier on the 3.3V and 5V rails), and 3) if it's old it *will* have aged and become less efficient and more likely to fail.
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