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enderking470
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Even a 1080 ti can't saturate a PCIe 2.0 16x slot, it just doesn't matter

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At this point, no, you will not lose performance. But, assuming you get a high end card, it probably will bottleneck the next GPU upgrade you do.

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12 minutes ago, enderking470 said:

I'm currently running a graphics card that is in a PCIe 2.1 16x slot... I'm badly in need of an upgrade and the card I'm looking at runs in a PCIe 3.0 16x slot... would I be able to use the card and would there be any loss of performance 

That depends on whether the PCIe slot is limited to 2.1 by the GPU itself or the board, PCIe is forwards and backwards compatible, so it won't be an issue no matter how old it is, but but 2.1 is enough for even a high end card.

Yours faithfully

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Assuming you have 2nd gen intel cpu, dont go above gtx 1060 or rx 580, or you will be bottlenecked by cpu itself, otherwise pci 2.1 wont be a problem, if you are not using some pci cards like gigabit internet or some highend sound cards... (if you are using only 1 gpu you wont see any difference between pci2 and pci3)

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