New 7950 Running at PCI Express 2.0

[Slipperz]

As the tilte says really.

I have installed my card tonight and GPU-Z says it's running at PCI-Express X8 V2.0

Catalyst CC reports this as well, quite worrying!!!

My MB is in my sig and I've installed the card in one of the two the PCI-E 3.0 slots. The other one is fouled by the huge cooler!!

Anyone else had this???

 

[shankly1985]

I7 2700k don't support pci 3.0

 

[Martini1991]

PCI-E controller is in the CPU, the 2700K was PCI-E 2.0 (Predating any PCI-E 3.0 cards)

 

[Slipperz]

Oh right!!!

Will I notice a lot of difference between PCI-E 2 and 3?

If so time for a CPU upgrade

 

[Addicted]

PCI-E 2 is not even fully utilized, so no.

 

[Slipperz]

PCI-E 2 is not even fully utilized, so no.

Do you mean PCI-E 3 ?

 

[r7slayer]

I remember looking at benches for a 7970Ghz running on a PCI-E 3 and PCI-E 2 and saw no increase in performance. Well saw 1 frame more max on couple of things on PCI-E 3 but that was it. So I would say don't worry about it mate.

Do you mean PCI-E 3 ?

No he means PCI-E 2. It's not fully utilized in terms of bandwidth so you won't run into any problems.

 

[Addicted]

Do you mean PCI-E 3 ?

Nope, PCI-E 2. As above, we don't use all the bandwidth on PCI-E 2, so PCI-E 3 is a long way off yet!

 

[Slipperz]

Nope, PCI-E 2. As above, we don't use all the bandwidth on PCI-E 2, so PCI-E 3 is a long way off yet!

Nice one, sorry for doubting, thought it would be maxed out by now!!!