Author: KimaRo
Subject: My PCIe2 slot has "gone bad" and doesn't work
Posted: 14 Feb 2017 at 8:55pm
Hello, I've had my Z77 Extreme4 motherboard for a couple of years now (not really sure how long to be honest) and it recently didn't turn the monitor on when I started up my PC, so I changed the PCIe2 slot to the PCIe3 (which is only 8x). This has made gaming horrible, Witcher 3 is sometimes unplayable if I go into battle, it drops to the mid 20's in FPS. If I use Igni (a fire spell, for those that doesn't know) it also goes down to the 20's. This is super annoying and frustrating,
Subject: My PCIe2 slot has "gone bad" and doesn't work
Posted: 14 Feb 2017 at 8:55pm
Hello, I've had my Z77 Extreme4 motherboard for a couple of years now (not really sure how long to be honest) and it recently didn't turn the monitor on when I started up my PC, so I changed the PCIe2 slot to the PCIe3 (which is only 8x). This has made gaming horrible, Witcher 3 is sometimes unplayable if I go into battle, it drops to the mid 20's in FPS. If I use Igni (a fire spell, for those that doesn't know) it also goes down to the 20's. This is super annoying and frustrating,
I've been watching my GPU usage while testing some games and it doesn't go at 100%. Usually it's around 60~%
Here's an image on how it usually is. http://puu.sh/u2L1O/ea30735cbc.png
The issue I've started running into is that whenever I use Steam Link, it drops my FPS insanely. Life is Strange doesn't go over 30fps. CS:GO is around 24FPS. Is there anything I can do? I've tried everything, I've disabled my iGPU.
Also, when I check on my BIOS on what Gen i can use I have either Auto or Gen1. It should give me Gen3 aswell which is what it should be at (I just hope that Auto gives Gen3)
Anyway, here's my specs:
i5 3570k @ 4Ghz (4.2 boost)
970 @ 1400Mhz Gainward Phantom
16GB @ 1866Mhz Corsair Platinum Dominator
And all of my games are installed on my 2TB Seagate Barracuda.
Some are installed into either my Samsung 840 SSD or my Intel 330 SSD