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Hi, I have a Dell poweredge t110 ii. Config: -processor: xeon 1220 v2 -ram: 16 gb ddr3 -psu: 305 watt I want to play old titles like gta 5 in low settings.But it only has a pcie x8 2.0(25W only). I don't want to cut my pcie slot.In that case,which graphics card can i use?
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Hey Guys, I tried running my RTX 3080 Ti OC card from Asus Strix series on x8 by enabling bifurcation on my Asus Dark Hero Motherboard and found almost a 10-15% loss in performance while testing in Unigine Heaven benchmark. Has anyone tried running their 3080 Ti cards in x8? Did you have the same performance deficit or am I doing something wrong? If you must know why I'm trying to do this, its so that I can run my 2 Samsung 980 PRO Gen4 SSDs on the CPU lanes rather than chipset lanes. My Main System Specs : Ryzen 9 5950x Asus X570 Dark Hero 2 X G Skill Trident Z Neo 16 GB 3600CL16 2 X Samsung 980 PRO Gen4 SSD 1 TB Asus Strix RTX 3080Ti OC 1 X Seagate 7200RPM 4TB HDD 1 X Samsung 860 QVO 8TB SATA SSD
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These SSDs are marketed for the data center, but that won't stop some people from trying to get one for their desktops! Kingston promises up to 1.1 Million read IOPS (with up to 200K Write IOPS), a 5-year warranty, power failure data protection, and insane Read/Write speeds, hoping to saturate the 8 PCIe lanes it utilizes. I'm hoping this is not a duplicate post, but I did not see any references to this drive on the LTT forums with a couple searches, so yeah, I'm posting about it (https://www.kingston.com/us/ssd/system-builder/DCP1000) Personally, I do not see the benefit of these better drives until SATA III SSDs really do present bottlenecks for gaming and other high-end projects - unless you transfer large single files, you're good to go with SATA for the time being.
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So I have the ability to run 2 sli cards in x16 x16 but it will not work with my 2 970s. they run at x8. is this much of aN issue? I see videos showing a small improvement between the two but like.... is it worth my time to buy a longer bridge and try and also figure why the cards won't do sli in x16? or just forget it and do run x8
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I'm thinking about putting together a crypto-currency mining rig, so I was wondering are there any motherboards that support 4-way crossfire and x16 capability on more than only one PCI-e slot?! I plan on using RX480s.
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Recently I've discovered that my graphics card is running in x8 PCI-E Lanes Mode. I'm afraid that this comes with a performance penalty. I have replaced my GPU thermal paste aprox. 1 month ago (because the card was hitting even 80*C under load). My specs are: CPU: Ryzen 5 2600X MOBO: Asus ROG Strix B450-F (newest bios) GPU: MSI RTX 2060 GAMING Z (with OC) STORAGE: 953GB Patriot Viper VPN100 M.2 NVME (x4) and 223GB INTEL SSDSC2BW240H6 (SATA) My latest userbenchmark run: https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/23502893 (Yes, I know that userbenchmark is unreliable but it shows performance compared to other users) Ryzen 2nd gen supports 24 PCI-E gen3 Lanes (4 are used for chipset communication). In theory I should be able to get full bandwidth out of my GPU and NVME (x4 + x16). Is there something that I'm missing?
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My parts arrive next week. i5-8500 and Gtx 1080 on A Gigabyte H310M S2H. Now I also ordered one of them pcie 4x USB 3.0 cards. Also, I'm dumb when it comes to lanes. I know to things so far - my CPU supports 16 lanes and that guy can run both 8 and 16. What does this mean for my rig? If some one could take the time to explain lanes effects to me, i would appreciateb that a lot! TY
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My pci-e slot is running at x8 and i have not idea why. Im using a ryzen 3 3200g and a prime A320m-e motherboard with a rx 550 4gb.
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Hello floks, Here is a decent monday night mistery for all of you... Pc specs: Maximus X Code, i7-8700k, Gskill 32 GB 3200 QC14, kraken x62 r2, nzxt h700i, thermaltake litepower 600w ?(don’t judge yet) So I had my first Asus Strix 1080ti o11g from last year, and got a 2nd one a few days ago. i would not dare to SLI with such a low end PSU, but could not find anything powerful anywhere in stock due to miners, yet i wanted to make sure the GPU works. By pure chance i decided to test the 2nd PCIe slot this time, after removing my old card from the first port. Despite asus marketing this mobo with 2 PCIE x16 slots, the manual (even online) states clearly that both run at x8 when second is connected. This will lead to some performance loss for SLI, so one important lesson to share: always look beyond official presentations before you decide to buy anything. For me this wont be the end of the world though, as long as i get them working. And now for the big mistery: When a 1080ti is connected to the second PCIe slot, running at x8 i randomly get one of 3 anomalies: 1. As soon as i launch a game, fan speeds of GPU jump to maximum RPM, display looses signal, and powering off the beast does not work unless its done from the PSU. 2. If i run a less intense application, say blender, its stable initially, but as i try to render a more complex scene, i can barely move my mouse, although temp indicators all look fine. 3. Display causes some glitches, and flickering and the FPS is either 160, or under 10!!! Or simply the PC restarts during loading times, or even shuts down. GPUZ reported Vrel one time when i got to see it right before it restarted. After a weekend of troubleshooting, reinstalling thr planet, bios updates, reconnecting everything, (even trying out a 750W PSU), i have revealed the following: a. Both of my GPUs have this issue in the second PCIe slot, so we rule out that the new GPU might be flawed. With either 600 or 750W PSU. ? b. Both of my GPUs behave flawlessly when moved to the first PCIe x16 ? I finally found in stock a be quiet! 11 Dark Power Pro 1200W PSU, platinum ~94% efficiency but at this point i really wonder if the PSU is the real problem here... Again: temps ok, cabling ok, ramtest and drivers all ok. PCIe 1 x16 works as expected, PCIe 2 runs at x8 and totally unstable. Could it be that by using the second PCIe slot even when 1st PCIe slot is free, overall i am looking at more power usage beyond my current PSUs capacity? Or am I wasting my time and will most likely have to RMA!? any advice or insight is greately appreciated. -
I can't get my graphics cards to run at x16 it will only run at x8. I recently upgraded from 2 r9 280's to a gtx 1070 ti. It works and is running but in GPU-Z it the bus interface reads (PCIe x16 3.0 @ x8 1.1) and my understanding is that means the card supports running x16 PCIe 3.0 lanes but is running at x8, I don't know what the 1.1 means though. I have a MSI x99 gaming 7 motherboard with a i-7 5820k. The 5820k has 28PCIe lanes and the card is in slot e1 which is the only slot that can run x16 with a 5820k. I don't see anything in bios that lets me change the lanes for that slot (though I might just be missing it), I know that slot would have been running at x8 when I was using the r9 280's in crossfire, does anyone know if you have to change some setting to get it to run x16 or is that supposed to be done automatically? all the other slots on the board are empty except the m.2 (but that has a maximum of x4) and a SSD sata so I should have PCIe lanes to spare. I do have 6 usb external hard drives plugged in but those shouldn't be taking up PCIe lanes so I don't know what gives? I am still running windows 7 pro... but that shouldn't be the problem I don't think. Any help or insights would be greatly apperciated -
Hi everyone, I'm new to PC gaming and I bought a gaming PC a month ago from Dell since graphics were way too expensive. I'm wondering if it's normal that my graphics card PCIe slot is running at x8 even under a stress test. My CPU is an AMD Ryzen 7 1700X and my motherboard has a x370 chipset, which should, in theory, be able to handle my RX 580 at full PCIe speed. I know that sometimes the system is going to drop the PCIe speed to save some power, but in a game or under a stress test, it seems wierd. By the way, I disabled the PCIe power saving in the control panel and I'm using the AMD Ryzen Balanced power plan. Do you guys have any idea what can cause this or how to fix it? Thanks!
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Hi everyone, I am completely new to PCIe lanes and whatnot. I have a Pentium with 16 PCIe lanes, on an Asus Prime Z270-A. I also have TWO GPUs on the board. Would it automatically switch to x8 because I have had some issues with getting both graphics cards sensed at once. Also, if it doesn't automatically switch, can I manually switch it in the bios?Thank you!
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After hours of videos, guides, and forums, I am still confused about how pcie lanes from CPU's and mobos work so I was hoping someone can shed some more light for me. I currently have an i7 4790k which claims to have a max number of 16 lanes via up to 1x16, 2x8, 1x8+2x4. I am planning on getting ASRock z97 Extreme9 which has 4 PCIe 3.0 x16, 1 PCIe 2.0 x16, 1 mini-PCIe. So if I understood everything correctly, which I honestly don't think I did, my 1080 ti will use 1 PCIe 3.0 x16, leaving either 1 more PCIe 3.0 x16 or 2 PCIe 3.0 x8. The ti will also use up the x16 lanes from my cpu. I plan on using two NVMe m.2, the extreme9 only allows one nvme in pcie 3.0 x4 (also referred to as ultra m.2) and the other in pcie 2.0. To get around the 2.0 bottleneck I plan on using a PCIe 3.0 x4 Nvme - m.2 adapter instead, which uses up my last pcie 3.0 x4. (well technically they are both x8 but I don't think that is relevant). I also read somewhere that cpu lanes don't matter when it comes to storage. And then I plan on using some of the sata3 connections for more storage which should be fine since ssd's and hard drives don't require pcie lanes. Am I on the right track in understanding pcie lanes, and if not can someone help explain where I went wrong?
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Hey I'm switch from an old AM3 motherboard with an even older Phenom II CPU to an AM3+ board with an FX-6300. Only problem is I have my OS (Windows 7 Home 64bit) on my current motherboard and I'm not sure how I'm gonna switch my OS over. I'm fine with doing a clean install as I don't have a lot of data/files of any importance just games I can download again on my new mobo. Any ideas? Any help is appreciated thanks so much.
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Okay its marked x8 while the rest are marked x16 I know it should not have issues with a GPU plugged in but what about a GPU + PCI wifi device? -
Hi there, Jared again. I am emailing to ask if you could do a video where you test the same GPU on the various slots sizes, x1,x4,x8,x16. Compare the bottleneck of the different slots. I also would like to know if a titan in a x1 slot will give the exact same performance as a gtx 730 in a x1 slot and a ancient GFX card for example? Reason being that if you only have an x1 slot, you could still get better performance if you buy a better card or if its only worth while buying a card with x1 performance anyway. I would also like to see what happens if you SLI two cards in x1 and if you SLI two cards, one in x1 and one in x16. Although you have never acknowledge you have received my email, as always i would request you do, thanks -
I have a MSI GTX980 Gaming 4G connected to the top PCIE_X16/X8_1 slot on a Maximus VI Gene (Latest BIOS: 1603) board. I have no other expansion cards (not in a SLI config) and the processor is a i7 4790k. When I checked in the BIOS, it tells me it is running at x8 native. This is confirmed by GPU-Z, which tells me "PCI-E 3.0 x16 @ x8 3.0" even after running the render test from the ? symbol along with Valley and Heaven. Removed the CPU/GPU, checked the contacts even cleaned the slots, reset the CMOS and it still tells me it is running at x8 native. What is going on here and how can I get the GPU to run at x16 native? From my research, the board has additional Asmedia USB3.0 and SATA ports. Could these be causing the PCIE lanes to be occupied and how do I disable them in the BIOS? Any help would be appreciated.
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Hi, the new motherboard I im considering to buy (Gigabyte GA-Z170XP-SLI ATX Motherboard) says this: 1 x PCI Express 3.0 x16 slot, running at x16 (PCIEX16) 1 x PCI Express 3.0 x16 slot, running at x8 (PCIEX8) 1 x PCI Express 3.0 x16 slot, running at x4 (PCIEX4) 2 x PCI Express 3.0 x1 slots 2 x PCI slots What does the running at x8 or x4 mean?
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I wanna know the best z97 motherboard with: 2 pcie 8x Socket 1150 Is z97 Is BLUE (or with blue things, you know) Thanks.
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I recently realized that running sli requires at least 2 PCIe slots running at 8x speed. This is a problem for me because I'm running a 780 Ti GHz Edtion and a OCZ Revodrive 3 X2 with a 4770K. Meaning if a add another graphics card my PCIe slots will be running in 8x 4x 4x which sli doesn't support. I'm thinking of moving the OCZ Revodrive to another x1 slot (I know it want be getting the full bandwidth requires for full performance), but I don't know if the x1 slots also slow down the larger PCIe slots. To do this I'll have to buy another motherboard with a different PCI configuration, as I'm also have the Creative sound blaster ZxR sound card and currently using the built in WIFI. So I would need a board which as 2 x1 slots and built in WIFI or a board with 3 x1 slots and buy a WIFI card, while still having space for sli. I have found some possible board but I need to know if the x1 slots will slow down the x8 and x16 slots or it will be pointless to buy the new motherboard. If not then I would have to upgrade to x99, which I'd rather not do as my current system is less than 6 months old and I'd have to replace more part at a much higher expense. The main reason I want to sli is because I'm using the LG 34UM95 (3440x1440) and I need the extra performance for some more demanding games and I would like to eventually triple screen when Nvidia supports Muti-resolution with 2 1440p monitors on ether side. My current system is CPU - i7 4770K @ stock speed RAM - 32GB Corsair Dominator Platinum 2400MHz MoBo - Gigabyte Z87X UD5 TH CPU Cooler - Enermax Liqtech 120X GPU - Gigabyte 780 Ti Ghz Edition @ 1215MHz with GPU boost 2.0 PCIe SSD - OCZ Revodrive 3x 2 480GB (OS and games are here) PSU - Be Quiet Dark Power PRO 10 850w Sound Card - Creative Sound Blaster ZxR Other storage - Samsung EVO 1TB WD Black 4TB OS - Windows 8.1 64 bit (I actually like this OS)
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Hello everyone. I just want to ask a question about X8 for PC, and maybe have a nice discussion about one of my favorite game series. First the question. I just got X8 for PC since my PS2 broke, and seeing as it's rare on PS2 finding an english pc copy is nearly impossible. I want to know if anyone knows how or has a mod that will make the game english. Thanks
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Hiya, my friend is looking to do some PC upgrades but I'm worried that what he wants to do might not work very well. My main concern is his Crossfire set up. His CPU supports 16 PCIe lanes, and his motherboard has 2 x PCIe 3.0/2.0 x16 (x16 or dual x8), 1 x PCIe 2.0 x16 (x4 mode, black), and 3 x PCIe x1. He is looking to install 2 GPU's and 1 wireless card, so my question is, will the GPU's run at PCIe 3.0 x8/x4 (which is fine), or something else? Also, will it do so automatically, or will it disable the wireless card and run in PCIe 3.0 x8/x8 (which he will then have to edit in the bios)? For Reference: CPU: I7 4770 (in current PC) Mobo: Sabertooth Z87 (looking to buy) GPU: 2x R9 280x (looking to buy)
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guys... i've got a strange anomaly to talk about... i wanted to test the performance impact when switching from PCIe3.0x16 to x8 on my R9 290X. to do so, i placed the card in my lower slot, wich is only x8. i only changed that, clocks, settings even psu connection stayed the same. well, it turned out that it really had quite the impact... but here it comes: POSITIVE impact! i used valley to benchmark the results and got around 54 fps with my settings at x16. when using x8 i got 68 fps! i also tested 3D Mark 11 wich gave me 500 gpu-points more on x8 my mind is blown and i have no idea what is reality anymore. i tested both multiple times, with switching the slot between each run, watching temps and volts. nothing changed, except more fps... any opinions on that? similar experiences? my specs can be found below or in my profile -
Hi. I'm thinking on getting another GTX 780 Ti for my desktop. But I'm wondering, am I gonna holding back its true performance with my current set up because my motherboard only support PCIe2.0 at x8 if running two cards. Or is it time for me to upgrade to i7 4770k or 4930k? I'm open up to any suggestion. Specs are; i7 860 @3.66Ghz 8Gb ram @1866Mhz ASUS P7P55D EVO GTX 780 Ti Silverstone Strider gold 1000W evo Thanks guys!
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Hey guys. First of all my current rig is listed in my signature, posted here and can be viewed here: So I run dual GTX560Ti in SLI and a third GPU (9500GT) for my third monitor since SLI only supports 2 monitors and my cards (1GB VRAM each) cant run surround (and even if the screens still are all different). So my board is a pretty much lower end SLI/Crossfire board from Gigabyte which normally runs the first GPU on PCIe x16. The thing is, once there are at least 2 GPUs installed (SLI/Crossfire or not) it scales down to PCIe x8 on all slots. So my questions are: How much perfomance is lost? Is it like a single 560Ti just lower temps on both? Is a new board (AM3+, SATA3 and better PCIe) worth the extra money (max 130€)? As always: Thanks a lot in advance! Kind regards, Trek
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