GPU in PCIEX4 instead of x16

[Five.Stars]

Tell your friend to kindly stop offering advice on a subject he appears ill informed on.

 

[Scougar]

Do the technically right thing and put it in the x16.

 

[mattydoughts]

Do the technically right thing and put it in the x16.

I did

 

[Scania]

Tried my 1080ti in a 4X slot on my board, I was experimenting with airflow (not that I really give a crap tbh) but can't honestly say there was any perceptible difference,1-2 fps in RDR2 X-Plane 11 actually seemed much smoother weirdly! - it just looked wrong though so I put it back in the 16X slot.

 

[mattydoughts]

Tried my 1080ti in a 4X slot on my board, I was experimenting with airflow (not that I really give a crap tbh) but can't honestly say there was any perceptible difference,1-2 fps in RDR2 X-Plane 11 actually seemed much smoother weirdly! - it just looked wrong though so I put it back in the 16X slot.

I did a lot of reading online since this thread and it seems unless you have a really top end card then you will not notice a difference. I moved it anyway as it didn't look right and didn't feel right leaving it there lol

 

[ubersonic]

Tried my 1080ti in a 4X slot on my board, I was experimenting with airflow (not that I really give a crap tbh) but can't honestly say there was any perceptible difference,1-2 fps in RDR2 X-Plane 11 actually seemed much smoother weirdly! - it just looked wrong though so I put it back in the 16X slot.

In fairness you're comparing a PCI-E 3.0 16x slot to a PCI-E 3.0 4x slot (1/4 of the bandwidth). The OP is asking about the difference between a PCI-E 3.0 16x slot and a PCI-E 2.0 4x slot routed through the chipset (less than 1/8th of the bandwidth and will bottleneck pretty much any GPU made after 2009).

 

[Scania]

In fairness you're comparing a PCI-E 3.0 16x slot to a PCI-E 3.0 4x slot (1/4 of the bandwidth). The OP is asking about the difference between a PCI-E 3.0 16x slot and a PCI-E 2.0 4x slot routed through the chipset (less than 1/8th of the bandwidth and will bottleneck pretty much any GPU made after 2009).

Apologies, I hadn’t realised that, although still, I’d wager the average punter would be hard pressed to spot the difference.

 

[LeMson]

Anyone in the know would just presume you have a broke x16 slot, no matter the jazzy lights