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i baught a 4770 and i saw this on my motherboard spec's
' One PCI Express 16X slot for PCI Express x16 graphic card (Operate at x4 mode) '
does this mean that the card wont run at x16 and only x4, if so im going to cancal the order becuase its a complete waste of money if its only going to run at x4.
Cheers
tom
got a link to your mobo specs ?
well it does say it twice, so it must run at 4x
it wont be 4x slower but it may still be a waste of money
right well i might as well keep my 9500GT then if its going to be a waste of money.
I run an HD4830 on a PCI-E 8x slot and I see no performance hit TBH. To the OP first try both cards and if you so no improvment with the HD4770 do one of either two things:
1.)Keep the HD4770 and upgrade the motherboard at a later date
2.)Sell the HD4770 if there is no notceable performance increase. The HD4770 is a sort after card! ;)
yeah but its x4 surely its going to have some hit on it
I know with an HD4670 there is supposedly not much of a performance hit with a 4x slot.
might as well try it, if its not worth it il sell it on here, im sure its a wanted card.
I just saw this on CPU-z
http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/b...eshark/x16.jpg
does that mean its running at X16 and not x4 becuase if it was surely it would say that instead?
and this
http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/b...eshark/gpu.jpg
it says its PCI-E x16 @ x16 so i assume that means the card is running at x16? so i think im in the all clear.
Unless CPU-Z is mistaken it means that the PCI-E slot is 16x!Quote:
Originally Posted by watforddude
It could be that you have this motherboard:
http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p...model=945GM3-F
Ahhhh result :) its a shame the one i got it mixed with looks the same otherwise i would be able to know 100%
but at least i wotn have to worry about only have 25% the power of the card anymore. good thing i checked into that.
it wouldnt have been as bad as 25% of the power, more like 80%
Ahh well at least i know it will be running as good as it can :)