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Jarod_g29 April 24, 2008 01:15 PM
x8 and not x16
 
I have a PCI-E 2.0 slot on my gigabyte motherboard, It says it right on the box. I also have a BFG 8800GT which needs that slot. It is suppose to run at x16 and right now Its running at x8. How I found this was going into NVIDIA settings and clicking system information. Its saying right now that.

IRQ:16
BUS: PCI Express x8

My cousin has the same card and his says x16 in that area.

CAN ANYONE HELP AM I GETTING SCREWED?

Jarod_g29 April 24, 2008 01:59 PM
11 views and absolutely no idea, Im just freaking out because either there is a setting to be changed or my hardware is bullSh*T

sswilson April 24, 2008 02:05 PM
Maybe if you listed a model # rather than "gigabyte motherboard" somebody might have an idea of what's going on.

Jarod_g29 April 24, 2008 02:08 PM
Motherboard Model is

GA-M61SME-S2

Video Card is

BFG 8800gt Overclocked.

hopefully that will help

sswilson April 24, 2008 02:16 PM
GIGABYTE - Product - Motherboard - Overview - GA-M61SME-S2 (rev. 2.x)

Quote:
PCI Express Interface
Revolutionary PCI Express interface provides scalable bandwidth for multi-purpose usage. PCI-E x16 interface (The GA-M61SME-S2 supports up to PCI Express x8 mode, please refer to the VGA cards support list) doubles the bandwidth of graphics interface of previous generation thus delivering the utmost gaming experience. PCI-E x1interface provides twice the bandwidth of PCI interface up to 250MB/s for new generation I/O peripheral devices.
Didn't think the 6100 chipset supported 16X PCIe, and it's also not a PCIe 2.0

Jarod_g29 April 24, 2008 02:18 PM
it says on my box these exact terms.

GA-M61SME-S2
nVidia Geforce 6100/nforce 405 rev.2.0
AMD2 PCI-E*16 Micro ATX
ECT.

the critical information that im pissed about is that is says that on the box. GAY

sswilson April 24, 2008 02:23 PM
It supports X16 cards (I had an asrock board which "supported" X16 cards but would only do it at X4 speeds).

As far as PCIe 2.0 goes... nothing you wrote there says anything about PCIe 2.0.

The 2.0 you see is the motherboard revision #.

Eldonko April 24, 2008 03:11 PM
Exactly, 16x card support, 8x real speed.

Quote:
Originally Posted by sswilson (Post 53815)
It supports X16 cards (I had an asrock board which "supported" X16 cards but would only do it at X4 speeds).

As far as PCIe 2.0 goes... nothing you wrote there says anything about PCIe 2.0.

The 2.0 you see is the motherboard revision #.

MadHacker April 25, 2008 08:47 AM
well I wouldn't worry to much about it...
Tomshardware.com did a comparison of PCIE bus width and gaming performance.


so your video card is probably not utilising the full bandwidth of PCIE16 let alone worries of PCIE16v2

MadHacker April 25, 2008 08:47 AM
here is the link
GeForce 9800 GX2 - Tom's Hardware : PCI Express 2.0 Graphics Cards Tested


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