Advice please

[Blackheart_72]

I am looking at going from a 7850 to one of the Nvidia 970's, the main problem I have is my last 7850 stopped working and took the PCIE x16 slot with (nothing I plug into the slot works)

At the moment the replacement card is running in the PCI Express x16 slot that runs at x4 (PCIEX4), if I do buy the card will I have any problems with it in this slot as the 7850 has been fine so far. Nothing is running in any of the other slots due to this.

Thanks

 

[Shiari]

nVidia cards need 8x, so it's very likely it won't work at all.

 

[Blackheart_72]

That I didn't know cheers fella, is there any card that would be classed as an upgrade that would work in that slot ?

GPU-Z reports the slot running at PCI-E 3.0x16 @x4 1.1 (the 1.1 changes to 2.0 under load)