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Old Feb 3, 2013, 11:55 AM   #7
JoshuaMitchell
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System Specs

Quote:
Originally Posted by animal007uk View Post
If your motherboard is only PCI-E 1.0 or 1.1 then your gpu will always run at 1.0 or 1.1 16x
So there is no solution to update it into 2.0? I installed all the lastest drivers of my motherboard + chipset etc.

EDIT:
I found some benchmark @ some website and the diffrence of 1.1 and 2.0 isn't so great:


PCI-E 1.1
Run 0 (Frontline)
•Total Frames: 5196, Total Time: 59.34303 sec
•Average Framerate: 87.66
•Max. Framerate: 248.57 (Frame: 4790)
•Min. Framerate: 13.55 (Frame: 2409)

Run 1 (Frontline)
•Total Frames: 5282, Total Time: 59.77334 sec
•Average Framerate: 88.47
•Max. Framerate: 255.82 (Frame: 5068)
•Min. Framerate: 13.79 (Frame: 2456)

Run 2 (Frontline)
•Total Frames: 5252, Total Time: 59.77408 sec
•Average Framerate: 87.96
•Max. Framerate: 252.72 (Frame: 4796)
•Min. Framerate: 14.80 (Frame: 2378)

Average Results
•Average Framerate: 88.00
•Max. Framerate: 255.82
•Min. Framerate: 13.55
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PCI-E 2.0
Run 0 (Frontline)
•Total Frames: 5489, Total Time: 59.43546 sec
•Average Framerate: 92.45
•Max. Framerate: 245.82 (Frame: 5251)
•Min. Framerate: 16.52 (Frame: 3)

Run 1 (Frontline)
•Total Frames: 5515, Total Time: 59.83518 sec
•Average Framerate: 92.27
•Max. Framerate: 264.13 (Frame: 5375)
•Min. Framerate: 19.43 (Frame: 2385)

Run 2 (Frontline)
•Total Frames: 5523, Total Time: 59.83703 sec
•Average Framerate: 92.40
•Max. Framerate: 250.56 (Frame: 5357)
•Min. Framerate: 21.65 (Frame: 2547)

Average Results
•Average Framerate: 92.33
•Max. Framerate: 264.13
•Min. Framerate: 16.52
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