[SOLVED] Msi pcie socket broke, is the second one as fast?

[Jeff_120]

I have an msi M3 H170 . Yesterday while doing some cable management I had to pull the geforce card, unfortunately it's the whole socket that went off with the graphic card!!!
There is a line of pins but I don't know if something broke. So now I am using the geforce on the 2nd pcie slot (not sli) and from the fps count it looks like a pcie x16 performance just like the broken one. On the MSI website it's stated pcie x16: 2. But in the pdf they only say it becomes pcie x4 when using the 1st slot, no words of pcie x16 when using it without the 1st slot.
So is it pcie x16 or not?

 

[dvo]

most of the time the second pcie is x8, even if the first pcie is unused. this likely doesn't matter at all, especially depending on what GPU you have. most GPUs, even higher end ones, don't use up anywhere near the bandwidth of pcie x16 and will run just fine at x8. if your performance doesn't seem to have changed then i wouldn't worry about it being in the lower slot

 

[TJ Hooker]

The 2nd x16 slot runs at x4 regardless whether the first x16 slot is used. If either of the x1 slots are used, the 2nd x16 slot will only run at x1.

 

[Jeff_120]

I will have to try with other games then
If performance is bad then I will have to get a new motherboard.