[Echosyp]

Currently have an ASUS Sabertooth 990fx R2.0 with 2x XFX Double D 7850s

My first GPU covers up my PCI-E x1 slot because it is so big, I thought about leaving my 2nd GPU in the 3rd slot and putting the first GPU down in the 4th slot, but was wondering how big of a performance loss would it suffer?

Starting to think the Avermedia Live Gamer HD card isn't worth getting if my GPUs will suffer a big loss just to free up my PCI-E slot.

 

[KaRLiToS]

To give you an idea how its minimal





PCIe 3.0 vs 2.0

 

[Art Vanelay]

Not at all.

 

[Echosyp]

well then, the way I heard someone else talking it was like reducing my performance in half. That sheds some light on my situation. really appreciate it

 

[Art Vanelay]

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Originally Posted by Echosyp

well then, the way I heard someone else talking it was like reducing my performance in half. That sheds some light on my situation. really appreciate it

Well, if you are going down to X4, it's going to make a dent in performance, otherwise it will be fine.

 

[Echosyp]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Art Vanelay

Well, if you are going down to X4, it's going to make a dent in performance, otherwise it will be fine.

Read on my mobo specs and it supports quad SLI / Crossfire with 16x, 8x, 8x, 8x. So I figured putting my cards in slot 3 and 4 would be 8x 8x if I am correctly doing it right.

 

[dixson01974]

PCI-E 3 is x16 and PCI-E 4 is x8.

 

[Atomfix]

I lost about 300 points on 3Dmark11 by switching my GPU from PCI-E X16 slot 1 to PCI-E X16 slot 3, which was connected to my Southbridge, and the first one to my Northbridge