Does it Matter Which PCI-E SLOT you Use?

does the pcie slot matter for gpu   Dan does it matter which gpu slot i use

PCIe x16 slots are associated with graphics cards and provide the highest bandwidth available on a standard consumer motherboard High-end gaming

Your Motherboard provides 2-16X PCIE slots, which would be ideal for high-performance graphics card teaming via Crossfire in the case of this Unfortunately, it looks like plugging your card into the 4th PCIe slot puts it in x8 mode However, the real difference in speed between x8 and x16 is

wild beach party slot Not exactly how it works The card and slot would both need to be PCI-e to get x16 bandwidth over x8 If it's a card, it'll run in I have set Power management mode to Prefer Maximum Performance in NVIDIA Control panel, changed the CPU and PCH link speed to the max that