Quick question

[BulletSponge]

I have a r5 3600 and a rtx 2070 super with a b450 mobo should i worry that i have this gpu and cpu running in pcie 3

[minibois]

1 minute ago, Dancam38 said:

I have a r5 3600 and a rtx 2070 super with a b450 mobo should i worry that i have this gpu and cpu running in pcie 3

The motherboad is PCIE 3.0 and the videocard is PCIE 3.0.

Not sure what you are referring to that you think you should 'worry' about?

[BulletSponge]

Just now, minibois said:

The motherboad is PCIE 3.0 and the videocard is PCIE 3.0.

Not sure what you are referring to that you think you should 'worry' about?

what i mean by this is will pcie 3 and pcie 4 impact my performance in a bad way btw my cpu is pice gen4 ready it should be ok on my gen3 mobo

[LauriHimself]

1 minute ago, Dancam38 said:

worry

what would you have to be worried about? i don't see any problem tbh

afaik the nvidia cards aren't pcie 4 anyway

 

or are we talking about your pcie slot here? so as in "the 3rd slot"?

then it will be good to know what board you got

[minibois]

Just now, Dancam38 said:

what i mean by this is will pcie 3 and pcie 4 impact my performance in a bad way btw my cpu is pice gen4 ready it should be ok on my gen3 mobo

You are not using a PCIE 4.0 device (your videocard), so what are you worrying about?

 

[BulletSponge]

Just now, LauriHimself said:

what would you have to be worried about? i don't see any problem tbh

afaik the nvidia cards aren't pcie 4 anyway

 

or are we talking about your pcie slot here? so as in "the 3rd slot"?

then it will be good to know what board you got

i have the msi gaming plus max mobo my cpu says pcie gen4 ready its ok right

[LauriHimself]

22 minutes ago, Dancam38 said:

pcie gen4 ready

i'd guess thats just marketing...

afaik none of the nvidia cards are pcie gen4

 

and as pcie gen4 is physically identical to gen 3 as far as the slot is conserned, you are golden.

gen3 to gen4 is only a bandwith difference

 

EDIT: just saw you were talking about your CPU there. in that case it is not just marketing! i thought it was your GPU saying gen4 rdy, which would have been.

 

anyways, you do not have to expect any problems using that card in your system.

[The1Dickens]

1 minute ago, Dancam38 said:

i have the msi gaming plus max mobo my cpu says pcie gen4 ready its ok right

The PCIe Standard is backwards compatible, so unless all the parts in the chain are of the same level, it will default to the lowest level of the hardware in the chain. Your CPU says it can run PCIe 4.0, but your motherboard and GPU are PCIe 3.0 only, so your system will run at PCIe 3.0 level.

 

If your board was PCIe 2.0, GPU is PCIe 3.0 and CPU is PCIe 4.0, your system would run at PCIe 2.0 level.

 

If it was MoBo: PCIe 4.0, CPU 3.0, GPU 2.0, it would be PCIe 2.0 level.

 

If it was Mobo: PCIe 4.0, GPU 4.0, and CPU 3.0, you'd be working at 3.0 level.

 

The only worry you really have is whether or not you spent money on a feature/performance you can't use. CPU is usually the only place you want that headroom, though.

 

TL;DR: You should  be fine.

[The1Dickens]

7 minutes ago, LauriHimself said:

i'd guess thats just marketing...

It's not 'just marketing'. You just can't buy the CPU alone to get PCIe 4.0 speeds in your system.

[LauriHimself]

7 minutes ago, The1Dickens said:

It's not 'just marketing

i think you misunderstood me

 

what i meant is that no current nvidia gpu is able to take any advantage of pcie gen4 and given that, a pcie gen 4 ready sticker on a nvidia card just means that you can use it in gen4 boards.

 

edit: hold on, he was talking about his cpu ... sorry, got that mixed up