Will my GPU be bottlenecked due to PCIe 2.0?

[RowTheBoss]

Will my Gigabyte Windforce R9 290 4GB 528-bit Video card be bottlenecked by my Asus M5A99FX Pro 2.0 motherboard because the PCIe slots on the board are 2.0? If the GPU will be bottlenecked please provice an alternative!

 

[Shadowblade2652]

It will be 'bottlenecked' in the sense that it will get lower bandwidth from the slot. Will it work? yes. Will it be as fast as it can be? no. You could upgrade your motherboard, or you could stick with the R9 290 with slightly decreased performance. Most newer motherboards from the last two years support PCIE 3.0

 

[coozie7]

Not enough to warrant the expense of swapping motherboards, the card will loose 3-5%, it's more likely to be held back by the processor, AMD chips are not as efficient core-to-core or clock-to-clock as Intel ones which can be a restriction in titles that are not fully multi threaded.

 

[danco5074]

There isn't going to be a big difference. Maybe 2% performance, if you're lucky. http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Impact-of-PCI-E-Speed-on-Gaming-Performance-518/

 

[taenbolle]

It will be 'bottlenecked' in the sense that it will get lower bandwidth from the slot. Will it work? yes. Will it be as fast as it can be? no. You could upgrade your motherboard, or you could stick with the R9 290 with slightly decreased performance. Most newer motherboards from the last two years support PCIE 3.0

remember that there maybe could be a am3+ socket then and beacuse of windows product key.... he cannot change motherboard 🙂

 

[Shadowblade2652]

@taenbolle
that's only in computers that come prebuilt with the OS. If you build your own the OS is not tied to the motherboard.

And if he bought a prebuilt with a motherboard like that the company surely would lose money on the damn thing.

 

[bignastyid]

@taenbolle
that's only in computers that come prebuilt with the OS. If you build your own the OS is not tied to the motherboard.

And if he bought a prebuilt with a motherboard like that the company surely would lose money on the damn thing.

That's actually not correct. OEM versions of win 7 and older are tied to the motherboard prebuilt or not. Its not just prebuilts that use OEM versions of window, OEm liscenses are available for purchase on sites like Newegg and Amazon. With windows 8 The OEM system builder versions can be moved to another system aslong as it is only installed on 1 system at a time. The preinstalled version of win 8 from the the bigger manufactures(Dell, HP, etc) come with the product key embedded into the bios and those copies can't be used on another system Also there companies who sell prebuilt desktops that use high end motherboards.

 

[Shadowblade2652]

@taenbolle
that's only in computers that come prebuilt with the OS. If you build your own the OS is not tied to the motherboard.

And if he bought a prebuilt with a motherboard like that the company surely would lose money on the damn thing.

That's actually not correct. OEM versions of win 7 and older are tied to the motherboard prebuilt or not. Its not just prebuilts that use OEM versions of window, OEm liscenses are available for purchase on sites like Newegg and Amazon. With windows 8 The OEM system builder versions can be moved to another system aslong as it is only installed on 1 system at a time. The preinstalled version of win 8 from the the bigger manufactures(Dell, HP, etc) come with the product key embedded into the bios and those copies can't be used on another system Also there companies who sell prebuilt desktops that use high end motherboards.

If the copy is purchased from the Microsoft store, it is not tied to anything, correct?

 

[bignastyid]

I believe the Microsoft store only sales retail copies, retail licenses are not tied to a system.

 

[bignastyid]

Will my Gigabyte Windforce R9 290 4GB 528-bit Video card be bottlenecked by my Asus M5A99FX Pro 2.0 motherboard because the PCIe slots on the board are 2.0? If the GPU will be bottlenecked please provice an alternative!

A 16x Pci-e 2.0 slot is not going to noticeably bottleneck a a R9 290. There aren't any AM3+ boards with pci-e 3.0 slots available(asus did make one but it was discontinued). You'd have to go Intel to get pci-e 3.0.