Precisely: the OP's PC is PCIe 2.0, not 3.0, so it's going to act like a 3.0 x4 card.
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3050 on PCI-e 2.0
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Precisely: the OP's PC is PCIe 2.0, not 3.0, so it's going to act like a 3.0 x4 card.
Not if OP uses the CPU controlled PCIe slot, then it'll be 3.0 x8. It's only if he decides to stick it in the lower PCIe slots controlled by the chipset it'll drop to 2.0.
EDIT: Huh wait a minute, even the CPU controlled slot drops to 2.0 on H81? OP what motherboard are you using exactly?
Wasn't sure if OP was checking just the lanes from the chipset. MSI Ventus is the 1650 GPU he was using before.
Either way a quick search there doesn't seem to be any special H81 boards that sneakily allowed 3.0 on the main slot. I guess it depends if OP can stretch to a GPU with x16 lanes or doesn't mind losing a bit of performance or so until they can upgrade to a more modern CPU + mobo, or even just swap to a second hand H87 board.
I'm using ASRock-VG4: link
As you can see it's only got 2 slots, so only one slot the Graphics Card will actually fit into. This Board is relatively new iteration based on an old chipset. You guys may or may not be familiar with it possibly could have only been released in low-cot markets. I bought it replace a dead Gigabyte B85 Board. Anyway it's rock-solid works very well.
Just to make you all familiar with my situation I retired around 5 years ago and left the UK. I'm now an expat living in Goa.
As you can see it's only got 2 slots, so only one slot the Graphics Card will actually fit into. This Board is relatively new iteration based on an old chipset. You guys may or may not be familiar with it possibly could have only been released in low-cot markets. I bought it replace a dead Gigabyte B85 Board. Anyway it's rock-solid works very well.
Just to make you all familiar with my situation I retired around 5 years ago and left the UK. I'm now an expat living in Goa.
Received the Card. NVIDIA SI showing PCI Express x8 Gen2. GPU-Z shows the same info.
However Card is working well. Forza 4 plays perfect locked @ 60FPS (Ultra settings). Visuals are very good and game runs smooth, much better than on 1060 and 1650 I had used previously.
Card suits my needs for now, will consider upgrading next year to Alder Lake and NVIDIA 4 series card.
However Card is working well. Forza 4 plays perfect locked @ 60FPS (Ultra settings). Visuals are very good and game runs smooth, much better than on 1060 and 1650 I had used previously.
Card suits my needs for now, will consider upgrading next year to Alder Lake and NVIDIA 4 series card.
Ya, getting tempted but can wait. Only this time will research properly make sure I choose top-end chipset MB and make sure Graphics card I choose to get runs properly @ x16 - not a gimped one.