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I'm looking at a rx 6500 xt, I know, everyone says it's bad but where I live it's close in price to the 1050ti, so yeah.

I heard that I need pci gen 4 to get the most out of it though.

I'm finding contradicting information about pcie gen 4, where some say that it is only available on b550 and 570 motherboards...

 

Mine is MSI B450 Gaming Plus, what I found on the website (https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/B450-GAMING-PLUS/Specification) says:

  • PCI-E X16: 2
  • PCI-E GEN: Gen3(16) (8), Gen2(4)

Will I be able to run the gpu with gen 4? Anything I need to know about it?

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No. 

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2 minutes ago, Middcore said:

No. 

I see thank you

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8 minutes ago, pacote said:

I'm finding contradicting information about pcie gen 4, where some say that it is only available on b550 and 570 motherboards...

 

 

Those who say that are correct. Any information saying it is available on other AM4 boards is in error. 

 

Note that the CPU must also support PCIe 4.0, which Ryzen 5000 and 3000 (except 3400G and 3200G APU's) do. 

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30 minutes ago, Middcore said:

 

Those who say that are correct. Any information saying it is available on other AM4 boards is in error. 

 

Note that the CPU must also support PCIe 4.0, which Ryzen 5000 and 3000 (except 3400G and 3200G APU's) do. 

And the 5000 series APUs: 5600G and 5700G. Those only support PCIe 3.0, as well.

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20 minutes ago, Chris Pratt said:

And the 5000 series APUs: 5600G and 5700G. Those only support PCIe 3.0, as well.

 

Do they? They're Zen 2 so they ought to support 4.0. 

 

Huh. That's weird. Makes AMD's site here misleading: https://www.amd.com/en/promotions/pcie4 5600G and 5700G probably weren't out when it was made and it was never updated.

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40 minutes ago, pacote said:

I'm looking at a rx 6500 xt, I know, everyone says it's bad but where I live it's close in price to the 1050ti, so yeah.

I heard that I need pci gen 4 to get the most out of it though.

I'm finding contradicting information about pcie gen 4, where some say that it is only available on b550 and 570 motherboards...

 

Mine is MSI B450 Gaming Plus, what I found on the website (https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/B450-GAMING-PLUS/Specification) says:

  • PCI-E X16: 2
  • PCI-E GEN: Gen3(16) (8), Gen2(4)

Will I be able to run the gpu with gen 4? Anything I need to know about it?

I highly recommend spending a little more for a better video card. The 6500xt should never have been released on desktop. It's a part that was designed for mobile computing.

 

You'd be much better off with a used Rx 580 8GB or an RTX 2060.

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1 hour ago, Middcore said:

 

Do they? They're Zen 2 so they ought to support 4.0. 

 

Huh. That's weird. Makes AMD's site here misleading: https://www.amd.com/en/promotions/pcie4 5600G and 5700G probably weren't out when it was made and it was never updated.

Yeah, it's a bit odd. I'm not sure why they don't have PCIe 4.0, but I guess there was some reason in AMD's infinite wisdom. It's really screwed over a lot of people that bought them as an interim solution because of the GPU shortage, and now just want one of these budget cards.

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i agree dont get that gpu, its shit, and definitely not worth buying a new mobo for, just get a bit better gpu then you dont have to worry about pcie4 at all.

 

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22 hours ago, Middcore said:

 

Do they? They're Zen 2 so they ought to support 4.0. 

 

Huh. That's weird. Makes AMD's site here misleading: https://www.amd.com/en/promotions/pcie4 5600G and 5700G probably weren't out when it was made and it was never updated.

The 5000G CPUs are Zen 3. It's the 4000G series that are Zen 2 based. And the reason they all only support Gen 3 PCIe is that they are based on the AMD mobile chips; they are monolithic without chiplets and without the IO die.

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