pcie 2.0

So alright, this is the situation, i have a laptop. Good enough quadcore 2ghz cpu, 6gb ram, ssd, problem, no gpu, igpu barely functional. found out EXP GDC is a thing, gonna buy it, only port available to me to use as egpu slot is expresscard, which only supports pcie 2.0 x1 even tho physical...

As the title mentions I need to add more SATA ports to my Plex machine for extra HDDs (no SSDs). I have a free PCIe 2.0 x4x slot and I was wondering if it is okay if I use a PCIe 4X to 8 or 6 SATA Expansion Card or if it will be too much for the slot to handle. Please advise.

Hello everyone, I'm experiencing a perplexing issue with my dual GPU setup and could use some expertise. My system configuration is as follows: Motherboard: ASUS Z87-PRO GPUs: NVIDIA RTX 3090 (in PCIe 3.0/2.0 x16 slot) and NVIDIA GTX 960 (in PCIe 2.0 x16 slot, operating at max x4 mode)...

Hey, I have a big doubt about the settings I want to set up, I know the RX launch was very troubled and I wanted to know if it's better now. I intend to get this hardware: XEON X3470 RX6500XT 16GB RAM DDR3 1333MHZ But my motherboard (msi h55-e33) is pcie 2.0, I wanted to know if I would lose a...

Hi everyone, my GPU is GTX 460, CPU is Xeon E3-1220 V3, and motherboard is Gigabyte H81M-DS2V (rev 1.0) with latest BIOS version F6. My problem is that my GPU always runs on PCIe 1.1 even at full load (gaming) and won't go back to running on PCIe 2.0 unless I restart my PC. This problem makes...

My PC Specs : ( Dell Vostro 3900 Mini Tower ) Intel i5 4460 Integrated Intel HD 4600 12 GB DDR3 1600 Mhz RAM 1 TB HDD ( I will add a 128 GB SSD ) 300 W Dell PSU ( I will Upgrade to a Corsair VS450 ) Dell 0T1D10 Motherboard ( which has only PCIe 2.0 x16 slot ) In My Country, GTX 1060, 970, RX...

My motherboard is a B560 DS3H AC (rev. 1.0), found here: https://www.gigabyte.com/us/Motherboard/B560-DS3H-AC-rev-10#kf Im wondering if i will be able to run a multi gpu setup at higher than pcie x1 with this motherboard. Expansion slot specs on mobo: 1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x16...

I am tryin to put together one of my old computers so my nephew can play modded Minecraft and other steam games on it but the only graphics card i could find at the time was a gtx 1650 which doesnt seem to work with the motherboard i have, to my understanding all pcie graphics cards and slots...

hey guys , i ask your wisdom here my rx vega 56 ( rog strix ) is not recognised on pcie 3.0 setup , it turns on , lights and fans , but not detected through bios hardware or anything when plugged to a system on pcie 2.0 port 4x , it works very fine ((and draws a lot of power btw) ( furmark)...

I have a pretty oddball build I'm working on, and I've run into a bit of an odd conundrum. Ryzen 3900x Aorus Master x570 GTX 1080-TI 32GB TridentZ Neo DDR4-3600 With the 2 remaining PCI slots, I'd like to install some capture cards. The cards I would like to use are Blackmagic Decklink Quad...

I have a GTX 670 connected over ExpressCard to my laptop and in GPU-Z the PCIe bus speed was capped at x1 @ Gen 1.1. How much of a performance loss do I get compared to sticking it in a desktop? (btw I am using an external monitor). Also, shouldn't it be running at Gen 2 speeds? I have an...

Hello there, I have built my PC half a year ago. For all the time until now it had worked like a charm. But it just so happened that something strange started to happen. My PC would freeze on Windows load, afterwards with monitors going black and with nothing to do but to terminate the PC...

For a NVMe SSD with ~2k GB/s read/write would there be any performance reduction or compatibility issues if it was connected unto 4x PCIe 2.0 instead of the PCIe 3 which is supposed to go to? (the mobo has M.2 slot) The products I have in mind are the Kingston A2000 500GB unto B450 TOMAHAWK MAX...

Will this work or fast? i want keep my wifi card of my laptop because it served me well

Yesterday I bought PCIe ethernet card which was not working, probably. I returned it and today I bought 1ghz ethernet PCIe card https://www.alza.sk/tp-link-tg-3468-d309053.htm unplugged PC, then pushed card to PCIe slot, nothing happened. my board is ASUS p7h55-m Any ideas?

Hi there, I recently got my hands on a Samsung 970 PRO 512GB. It's not mine though, so I'll only have it for a few days. During this time, I was able to run a few tests to see how fast it is. Due to my motherboard being limited to a single M.2 PCIe 2.0 x2 slot, the drive is way slower than it...

Hello I have a home theater system called samsung ht-j5500w I am trying to get a center speaker for it but am having trouble selecting which one would work. The specs page for the the ht-j5500w blue ray home theater player is this on page 47...

was curious if it can handle MSI GAMING GeForce GTX 1050 GB GDDR5 DirectX 12 Graphics Card (GTX 1050 2G OC) or MSI GTX 1050 AERO ITX 2G OC Graphics Card?

Hey guys! It's been a while since I've built a full tower and I know the power needs of a lot of things have gone down, so here's the rundown of the setup I'm looking at... The New GTX-1060 is a RIDICULOUS value for what you get! So, I have essentially based my entire build around this graphics...

Hi guys, the past few days my internet has been really sluggish. I tried running the speed test on Ookla and this is the results: I download games in steam at about 9MB/s which is roughly the same as the speed test results. I don't notice much lag in games. However, I tried to download...

Hi everyone. I need some help with picking the size of the radiator for my first water cooling. I want to cool an Intel i7-4770 and a GTX 780 (1019 MHz clock). Possibly the chipset later on. Around 350W of TDP (without the chipset). I should mention that I already read the sticky, but the...

I need Help with my build. Intel Core i5-4440 3.1Ghz - Rp 2,045,000 ASRock Z87 EXTREME4 (LGA1150, Z87, DDR3) - Rp 1,779,000 WDC 2TB SATA3 64MB - Rp 959,000 Corsair DDR3 Vengeance Blue PC12800 16GB (2X8GB) - Rp 1,872,000 MSI Geforce GTX 660 2048MB DDR5 - Twin Froz/OC - Twin Froz/OC Rp. 2,550,000...

It seems like the WQHD monitors are the best value for high resolution, performance and cost at the current time for my needs. I'm wondering if I have two GTX 770 in SLI will that will be enough to maintain 60 fps at the max resolution 2560x1600 across both screens of a game like World of...

What does it mean? How to solve it? I was wonder if maybe this is a problem with my hardware/system. This message was showed in the CPU-M Benchmark. http://i.imgur.com/3isHVpm.png Could someone help, or see if got the same message? My rig: Intel Core I5 3330 Mobo Asus P8B75M 500GB HD SATA III...

Hey all I have a new card Evga 760 4770k 8gb I install batman AC. Used all default settings to max settings. With phsyX off. Went in side the game to settings and ran the in game build in FPS benchmark. In all tests my max fps is 60 with 55 avg. This is very low I think. An I doing...