Incresing PCI-E Video Card Bus Speed

[AMEER157]

Hello,

I Was searching long time ago for a solution to change my video card bus speed, my card is NVIDIA 9500GT PCIe 2.0 16x Supported and my motherboard also support 16x, but when i looked on the proerties i saw that it's connected as 4x speed,

here's my spec:

 

[montyuk]

go into bios, bump the pcie frequency by a mhz or two.

if its set to less than 100 - set it to 100, but dont go too high (max 110) or it will cease to work.

 

[Kari]

^^eh? pcie bus freq has nothing to do with the link widht being at 4x... There should be completely separate setting for the link widht somewhere in the bios

 

[Kari]

checked gigabyte website and found a manual:
http://europe.giga-byte.com/FileList/Manual/motherboard_manual_ga-945gzm-s2_6.6_e.pdf
rev6.6 "The GA-945GZM-S2 supports up to PCI Express x4 mode."

so you are officially out of luck

 

[AMEER157]

My Bad Luck, so i'm going to change my Motherboard!

 

[montyuk]

well if im wrong im wrong, cheers kari for correcting my mistake.

 

[Kari]

how about a new cpu as well when you're at it? PentiumD is getting a bit old....
P45 based mobo and some core2 based cpu to go with it, E5200 perhaps?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128372
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116072