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Hello all,

When I built my pc I didn't realise PCI-e2 existed. My 4870 is PCIE2 and now I'm aware I might not be geting the best out of my grpahics card.

My question is, will it make that much of a difference if I get a mobo with said slot and if so what chipset should I go for as I really don't understand whats what with regards to chipsets.

CPU is a Q6600 and mobo must support Xfire.

PS: I asked Amblin this at work and he advised I posted here as he likes to just plug things in and let them work without worrying too much about the little details.

it won't make too big of an impact. It's not worth upgrading your motherboard for. Just wait until you upgrade your CPU and all that.

To be honest thats the answer I was hoping for. If everyone came in and said it was going to make a massive difference I'd have to do it but I think I can live with it for now. Especially as I have yet to struggle on any of the games I own.

I think the performance difference is like 1-2% in most situations.

stay as you are, minimal difference.

I'd probably say no difference being totally honest.

Bit like AGP, x4 still has excess bandwidth for graphics, just didn't have enough power connectors iirc hence the change to PCI-e, I've not looked into pci-e2, but I suspect it'll be along those lines again.

buzzmong wrote:I'd probably say no difference being totally honest.

Bit like AGP, x4 still has excess bandwidth for graphics, just didn't have enough power connectors iirc hence the change to PCI-e, I've not looked into pci-e2, but I suspect it'll be along those lines again.

It makes a difference when you're running Crossfie/SLI but with a single card it's negligible. Current GPUs are actually pretty close to saturating PCI-Ex 1.0