Octopuss Posted January 10, 2009 Posted January 10, 2009 Long story short: is x4 mode enough? By only (or "only") using x4 instead of x16, am I getting any performance hit? I just realized that pci-e slots on my board are dead (wtf??) and the x16 slot runs somewhat unreliably, so I got the card in the lower one. And I just realized it only supports x4 mode.
Octopuss Posted January 10, 2009 Author Posted January 10, 2009 I'll answer myself: not. x16 and everything is so much faster.BUTthe real x16 slot refuses to accept the presence of the VGA most of the time. I restart the PC and beeeeep, error, no signal going in the monitor. I can reset for ages and no result. Sometimes it seems to help to unplug and plug back, but... I couldn't find anything that really works to solve it. Extremely annoying.Would anyone know what's up?
CoffeeFiend Posted January 10, 2009 Posted January 10, 2009 Would anyone know what's up?First, you had a post about your motherboard being dead, then a post about your NIC making your computer BSOD lots, and now it's slots that don't work...There's obviously some problem with your hardware, might be your motherboard.
Octopuss Posted January 10, 2009 Author Posted January 10, 2009 I sorted those out. It was not dead, I just didn't know that when you plug something in the x4 slot, all x1 ones get disabled.All (well, most) the BSODs I had are related to one particular game... Must be something badly written.All the slots work - only the real x16 ones sometimes refuses to accept the VGA or something - I am not sure what's up.
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