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PCIe 3.0 and 2.0 fault can someone explain difference?

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  • Graphics Cards
  • Socket
  • Motherboards
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March 14, 2014 2:19:36 AM

Hi been having a problem with my computer and finally pinpointed the problem.

I believe my pcie 3.0 socket on my motherboard is faulty.

Motherboard is a asus h87-plus and graphics card i have is a sapphire amd radeon r9 270x. *gb ram ddr 3 cosair vengenace and i5 4750 cpu, 600w cosair modular psu with 1tb seagate HD

Been haing a display fault which with the bios beep codes found that it wasnt detecting the vga. Last night i tried te graphics card in my other pcie socket for graphics card and it worked fine. Took it out and put it back in the main one and didnt come on.

In the main socket its coming on sometimes then others its not where as in the other socket its working everytime.

All my parts are only 2 weeks old as its a new build so i can arrange to send motherboard back.

What i want to know is whats the difference from my 2 sockets and does it actually make a difference which socket its in for 1 graphics card?

My main socket is 1x pcie 3.0/2.0 x16 (x16 mode, yellow) (this one i believe is faulty)

Second socket is 1 x pcie 2.0 x16 (4x mode, dark brown) (using this one now and working fine)

My graphics card is 3.0 compatible so dont think this is the issue

Will there be a differnce using this socket?

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