GPU running x4

[Teemo4Life]

Motherboard H97m-E . IT supports x16.

 

GPU - GTX 970

 

I dont know why im running x4 instead of x16. 

 

Also happened when I had another motherboard before. This has been a long problem.

[FloRolf]

nvidia GPUs don't even support 4x so you are probably fine.

What CPU are you using?

[ImNotThere]

test the card in another system 

test the motherboard with another card

[Teemo4Life]

2 minutes ago, FloRolf said:

nvidia GPUs don't even support 4x so you are probably fine.

What CPU are you using?

Really???? LEL. But what about the screenshot from GPU-z? i even updated it cause maybe it was bugged. Is there any other software to see the bus interface

 

i5-4670

[Ashleyyyy]

13 minutes ago, Teemo4Life said:

Really???? LEL. But what about the screenshot from GPU-z? i even updated it cause maybe it was bugged. Is there any other software to see the bus interface

 

i5-4670

you can usually see it in the bios somewhere. "pci-e link bandwith"

[Teemo4Life]

1 minute ago, firelighter487 said:

you can usually see it in the bios somewhere. "pci-e link bandwith"

what setting exactly. Ill check now

[FloRolf]

17 minutes ago, Teemo4Life said:

Really???? LEL. But what about the screenshot from GPU-z? i even updated it cause maybe it was bugged. Is there any other software to see the bus interface

 

i5-4670

How about you get a benchmark up and compare to results online to see if performance is limited.

[Ashleyyyy]

1 minute ago, Teemo4Life said:

what setting exactly. Ill check now

it should be something like that. it is on my system anyway, but mine is very old

[TheRandomness]

22 minutes ago, FloRolf said:

nvidia GPUs don't even support 4x so you are probably fine.

What CPU are you using?

Yes they do. You just can't SLI at less than x8. 

[Glenwing]

23 minutes ago, FloRolf said:

nvidia GPUs don't even support 4x so you are probably fine.

What CPU are you using?

Sure they do, you can run them even in x1 if you want. They just don't support SLI below x8.

 

27 minutes ago, Teemo4Life said:

Motherboard H97m-E . IT supports x16.

 

GPU - GTX 970

 

I dont know why im running x4 instead of x16. 

 

Also happened when I had another motherboard before. This has been a long problem.

PCI Express modes change dynamically based on bandwidth needs to save power. It'll go up if you need the extra bandwidth. Realistically you may never see it go up though since games hardly use any PCIe bandwidth, generally speaking.

[Teemo4Life]

Just now, Glenwing said:

Sure they do, you can run them even in x1 if you want. They just don't support SLI below x8.

 

PCI Express modes change dynamically based on bandwidth needs to save power. It'll go up if you need the extra bandwidth. Realistically you may never see it go up though since games hardly use any PCIe bandwidth, generally speaking.

Ye i was thinking about the sli and x configs.

 

But I think everyone else who screenshots their gpu z has x16

[Teemo4Life]

Ive been in the bios before and it only had 3.0 2.0 and 1.0 for the pcie

[Glenwing]

6 minutes ago, Teemo4Life said:

Ye i was thinking about the sli and x configs.

 

But I think everyone else who screenshots their gpu z has x16

Here's mine right now:

Nothing to worry about.

6 minutes ago, Teemo4Life said:

Ive been in the bios before and it only had 3.0 2.0 and 1.0 for the pcie

You can select PCIe revision, but lane count is managed automatically.

[Hugs12343]

is that while gaming (or under any load) because there is a link power saving state thing that windows does. You can turn it off by following the steps below

 

1. Press win + x

2. Power Options

 

 

3. Additional Power Options

 

 

4. Change Plan Settings

 

 

5. Click Change advanced Power settings

 

6. Expand the PCI Express tab and find link state power management

 

7. Set to off

 

 

Sorry for the huge images. I just have such a huge monitor and I don't know how to make them smaller on LTT website

 

Hope this helped

[Teemo4Life]

30 minutes ago, Hugs12343 said:

Cut

Already off but thanks

[Teemo4Life]

32 minutes ago, Glenwing said:

Here's mine right now:

Nothing to worry about.

You can select PCIe revision, but lane count is managed automatically.

Thanks man!

[AshleyAshes]

2 hours ago, Glenwing said:

Here's mine right now:

Nothing to worry about.

You can select PCIe revision, but lane count is managed automatically.

If you click that question mark, it'll even ask you about running a quick bench on the GPU so that it can spin it up and put it's link to full operational speed.