8x Link speed?

orangecat · February 26, 2013

I have a Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-B3 rev.1.3 with UH1 Bios and a core i5 3570K but my 460GTX only runs at 8x speeds and its in the top most PCI-e slot. I have my BIOS configured to run PCI-e at GEN 3 spec.

BCMods · February 26, 2013

It's not a Gen 3 card so it won't run at Gen 3 speeds.

GoodBytes · February 26, 2013

Just to be sure:

From the top (closest to the CPU) to bottom this what you should have:

-> PCI-E 1x -> You can put anything that fits on it

-> PCI-E 16x -> Put your graphic card in

-> PCI-E 1x -> You can put anything that fits on it

-> PCI-E 8x -> **LEAVE BLANK**

-> PCI -> You can put anything that fits on it

If you had anything on the PCI-E 8x than that was your problem.

But yes, your graphic card is not PCI-E 3.0 compatible. PCI-E 3.0 8x = PCI-E 2.0 16x

Helltech · February 27, 2013

I have a Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-B3 rev.1.3 with UH1 Bios and a core i5 3570K but my 460GTX only runs at 8x speeds and its in the top most PCI-e slot. I have my BIOS configured to run PCI-e at GEN 3 spec.

Despite what people already told you, you shouldn't worry about it, x8 PCI-e 3.0 isn't anywhere close to being saturated by your 460 GTX. even if it was running at x4 you would get the same performance.