Vertical GPU Mount Speed Limitation?

[Luke Murtagh]

Hi all,

 

Just a quick question. I'm getting ready for my new build once the new 30 series GPUs come out but I have a question. I had planned to use Lian Li's Vertical GPU Mount in my Lancool II Mesh for aesthetic reasons, until I realised it has a speed limitation of 8Gb/s. How much would this affect the performance of my GPU? I would like a vertical mount simply because I like the look of it but I certainly don't want to sacrifice performance. For reference the card I'm looking at is the 3080 and the CPU it'll be paired up with is a i9-10900K, and I will be gaming at 1440p.

 

Thanks!

[Drama Lama]

4 minutes ago, Luke Murtagh said:

i9-10900K

this CPU has PCIe gen 3 anyway so a vertical mount wouldn't really affect performance

[Luke Murtagh]

59 minutes ago, Drama Lama said:

this CPU has PCIe gen 3 anyway so a vertical mount wouldn't really affect performance

Thanks for the reply.

 

So I would only see a difference if I either waited for the new Ryzen CPUs or upgraded further down the line to a future Intel CPU which was PCIe gen 4? In that case I might not mind going the vertical route. Wouldn't it be running on only half the speed of the x16 PCIe slot though?