Your GPU’s legacy PCIe slot is slower than it should be, but that’s not why you should replace it
PCIe 3.0 has been around for so long that seeing it in a PC today almost makes the entire platform feel ancient. Think about this for a second. The very first PC I built in 2012 with the i7-3770K already had PCIe 3.0 support, and since then, we've gone through PCIe 4.0 and now have PCIe 5.0 on mainstream motherboards. In fact, current-gen GPUs from both Nvidia and AMD are all PCIe 5.0, so pairing one with a motherboard that's still limited to PCIe 3.0 probably sounds like a terrible idea.
PCIe 3.0 has been around for so long that seeing it in a PC today almost makes the entire platform feel ancient. Think about this for a second. The very first PC I built in 2012 with the i7-3770K already had PCIe 3.0 support, and since then, we’ve gone through PCIe 4.0 and now have PCIe 5.0 on mainstream motherboards. In fact, current-gen GPUs from both Nvidia and AMD are all PCIe 5.0, so pairing one with a motherboard that’s still limited to PCIe 3.0 probably sounds like a terrible idea.
William Garcia
Boston
Boston
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