pci-e 4.0

PSA: Be careful what BIOS settings you have for your main PCI-Express slot if using a riser cable with your GPU. I was experiencing severe stuttering and frequent crashes when opening any new windows/apps in the OS itself (Windows 11) with the wrong setting. Changing the 'PCI_E1 Gen Switch' from...

Here is my Motherboard: https://www.newegg.com/asus-rog-strix-z590-i-gaming-wifi/p/N82E16813119377 Here is my GPU: https://www.newegg.com/asus-geforce-rtx-3090-rog-strix-rtx3090-o24g-white/p/N82E16814126482 When I plugged my RTX3090 directly into the motherboard's PCI-E 4.0 GPU slot...

So what is PCI-E 4.0? Will an RTX 3080 still work in a board with only a PCI-E 3.0, or should I look for a different board? The board is a Maximus Hero XII by Asus, by the way.

Hello. I recently got into pc building and after countless hours of research im going to give it a shot. I am a little stuck about something though and it seems hard to get a clear answer. I was looking at buying an evga z490 dark motherboard and i know intel doesnt have pci-e gen 4 yet, but is...

Hello all, Currently, I have a Z390 Godlike motherboard with a Samsung 970 Pro 1TB NVME SSD. My current read/write speed is 3500MB/2700MB I am very tempted to buy this new NVME which uses PCI-E 4.0 slots which has a higher read/write speed of 4950MB/4250MB...

Hello all, I plan on buying the upcoming Ryzen 3950x 16-cores/32-threads to replace my 9900k. However, the motherboard will be a X570 motherboard with PCI-E 4.0 slots. Is my RTX 2080 Ti compatible with PCI-E 4.0?

I am not sure how the new motherboards for the upcoming AMD 7nm CPUs works, I heard there is something called PCI-E 4.0 and it will transfer data a lot faster... So with my current 2080 Ti GPU, will I get like a significant boost in gaming performance, like 50% more FPS? From 200FPS to 300FPS...