GPU Slot Matters?

[Mavericknese]

Right now my GPU is in the secondary x16 PCI EXPRESS slot (my motherboard has three).

Will my performance be affected or it doesn't matter at all?

[monjessenstein]

AFAIK it's only the bottom slot that'll have less pcie lanes. Only thing I can think that would lower performance would be the smaller amount of space for airllow

[thinwalrus]

Usually only top slot has x16. Second one x8 and third uses the chipset x4.

[Mick Naughty]

Won’t matter unless your card can saturate 16x bandwidth. Which is doubtful but you can always test. 

[GeoSquigg]

1 hour ago, thinwalrus said:

Usually only top slot has x16. Second one x8 and third uses the chipset x4.

most motherboards, yes the first x16 slot will be PCIe 3.0x16. (my first slot happens to be a x1 slot .. starting to gain popularity as the air coolers get bigger and interfere with the first slot)

 

OP's motherboard has 3- pcie 3.0x16 slots, so any slot will work without degrading performance aside from cooling.

[Mavericknese]

 

Taken from my motherboard's manual. Right now my GPU is in the 4, as i think it only matters if it is PCIEX16/X8, i'm just thinking about moving to 1 just to get closer to CPU/Memory/Motherboard, and raising the 2 front coolers a bit for better airflow as Monjes said.

1 hour ago, monjessenstein said:

AFAIK it's only the bottom slot that'll have less pcie lanes. Only thing I can think that would lower performance would be the smaller amount of space for airllow

 

 

[thinwalrus]

1 hour ago, GeoSquigg said:

most motherboards, yes the first x16 slot will be PCIe 3.0x16. (my first slot happens to be a x1 slot .. starting to gain popularity as the air coolers get bigger and interfere with the first slot)

 

OP's motherboard has 3- pcie 3.0x16 slots, so any slot will work without degrading performance aside from cooling.

I was talking about how the x16 length slots are wired.

[GeoSquigg]

3 minutes ago, thinwalrus said:

I was talking about how the x16 length slots are wired.

Trying to make it clear for OP (and future lurkers)

 

And now just to clarify, not all x16 length slots are wired for 3.0x16 speeds.

For example my mobo has 3 x16 length slots that are wired to run at (top to bottom) 3.0 x 16, x4, x1 speeds

[thinwalrus]

1 minute ago, GeoSquigg said:

Trying to make it clear for OP (and future lurkers)

 

And now just to clarify, not all x16 length slots are wired for 3.0x16 speeds.

For example my mobo has 3 x16 length slots that are wired to run at (top to bottom) 3.0 x 16, x4, x1 speeds

Yeap I messed up a bit and made it confusing. Apparently I am strongly opinionated on that 7740X is no HEDT part.