PCiex16 slot conforms to pcie 3.0 standard (Has an exception im confused about)

CMcC55 · Jul 6, 2016

Ok, So my motherboard is a Gigabyte F2A55M-HD2 rev 3.0. My current graphics card is an AMD radeon r7 200 series. However, I'm looking to upgrade to something that can support three displays at any given time(Has a display port/mini display port basically) such as an AMD radeon r7 250x (contains 2 mini display ports, 1x HDMI, 2x DVI) But the information on my motherboard states that The PCiEX16 slot conforms to the PciE 3.0 standard but it has an exception stated below:

https://gyazo.com/122480123385fbb8161e2b9d787f2c75

My understanding is if i bought this 3.0 PciE graphics card and installed it on the PciEX16 slot which has that exception stated above which in turn the slot will act like a 2.0 slot, that the graphics card would only run at half the performance. My concern is should i worry about the exception or if i install the 3.0 graphics card will it run at full potential?

Edit:
Here is all the Pci Slots:

https://gyazo.com/9b9c744cbdb519876a1d07c69ca89c2c

And No I have not purchased the graphics card yet,

Thanks.

ajpaolello · Jul 6, 2016

There is not a large gaming difference between 2.0 and 3.0 that I have personally seen.

CMcC55 · Jul 6, 2016

ajpaolello :

But ive read threads that say if i install a 3.0 on a 2.0 slot that it decreases the potential power of the card.

utroz · Jul 6, 2016

CMcC55 :

Only a couple percent and only on the very fastest cards. Nothing to worry about. Be more worried about having a cpu fast enough to keep a faster gpu fed without bottlenecking too much. What cpu/apu are you running in the board? (this will also tell us if you are going to be running at PCI-E 2.0 or PCI-E 3.0 speeds.)s

CMcC55 · Jul 6, 2016

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Only a couple percent and only on the very fastest cards. Nothing to worry about. Be more worried about having a cpu fast enough to keep a faster gpu fed without bottlenecking too much. What cpu/apu are you running in the board? (this will also tell us if you are going to be running at PCI-E 2.0 or PCI-E 3.0 speeds.)[/quotemsg]

Thanks Utroz,
I'm running an AMD athlon 750k quad core processor @ 3.4 Ghz

ajpaolello · Jul 6, 2016

Shouldn't see a bottleneck with that cpu and that card. You should be good to go. Just make sure you have enough power of course!

CMcC55 · Jul 6, 2016

ajpaolello :

Thanks ajpaolello How would an Asus Radeon R7 250x 2gb GDDR5 run along with the processor, and does it matter the manufacturer eg. "The asus Radeon r7" etc , as in would it be matter that the motherboard is Gigabyte and the graphics card is asus? Thanks i'm new to upgrading graphics and checking for compatibility and such so i'm trying to learn as much as possible

ajpaolello · Jul 6, 2016

The processor will work just fine with the card. It's fine that the card is Asus and the board is gigabyte, should be fine as well

utroz · Jul 6, 2016

So you have a FM2 cpu so you will only be able to get PCI-E 2.0 speeds but that is more than enough for what you are using. Brand does not matter, just that your Power Supply is enough to power it.

CMcC55 · Jul 6, 2016

Alright thanks boys, seriously appreciate it.

CMcC55 · Jul 19, 2016

Im thinking of getting an EVGA GeForce GTX 750 TI Superclocked 2gb graphics card instead id like to know does it matter that my cpu is fm2 or if my cpu will bottleneck the card, and would it be compatible with my motherboard as in are the PCiE slots only for amd considering that the cpu has a55 processor and amd athlon processor slots, again just trying to learn as much as i can sorry if i seem oblivious to all this,

Thanks

utroz · Jul 19, 2016

Your system can run Nvidia cards just fine. Your cpu should keep up with the 750Ti fairly well.

CMcC55 · Jul 19, 2016

how well would it keep up with it, would it run with almost full potential performance or would it slack a bit? thanks utroz

ajpaolello · Jul 20, 2016

I think it would run with almost full potential, if not full potential.

CMcC55 · Jul 20, 2016

alright thats lovely thanks ajpaolello

utroz · Jul 20, 2016

It should keep up 95+% of the time.

CMcC55 · Jul 20, 2016

Thanks for the statistic utroz, very appreciated.

PCiex16 slot conforms to pcie 3.0 standard (Has an exception im confused about)

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