GPU running in PCI-e 2.0 not 3.0

[The Good Guy]

My GPU (Winforce 970) seems to be always running in pcie 2.0 mode. When I go to my mobo settings there are only options for pcie 1.0 and 2.0.
From the specs of the motherboard I gather it supports pcie 3.0.
Any idea on how to fix this?

PC:
Asus z97m-plus
Gibabyte Gtx 970 Windforce
Core i3 4160

 

[greens]

It could be a bios update? But honestly if everything works there is no point in pursuing this.

There is zero performance loss using PCIE 2.0 with a GTX 970.
In fact you could run SLI GTX 970 wth PCIE 2.0 x8 for both cards, which is half the bandwidth you're currently allocating, and still not bottleneck the GPUs.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/
Download GPUZ and run the render test. While it's running see what the PCIE info states it's running at.​

 

[The Good Guy]

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/
Download GPUZ and run the render test. While it's running see what the PCIE info states it's running at.​

Thanks Blackbird! There seems to be some power saving feature that keeps the card at PCIe 2.0/1.1 while it's in idle. Under load it goes to 3.0.