While it was a good explanation, many many things were left out. I had to watch like, 10 other videos to understand the terms. I'm leaving this explanation for other people like me: Firstly, PCI stands for Peripheral Component Interconnect A peripheral is anything that isn't part of the core computing process i.e. secondary (eg keyboard, mouse, GPU, LAN). PCI is thus an interface for these accessories to connect to the motherboard. While PCI was first introduced in 1992, because its speed is inherently limited (because of how the technology works), it was replaced by the PCI express (abbr PCIe) in 2004. Basically, PCIe >>>>> PCI. Now for the numbers. There are 5 types of PCIe slots/cards. They are: 1x, 2x, 4x, 8x and 16x. The numbers on these correspond to the number of lanes on the slot/card. What's a lane? A lane, like that for vehicles, is a path for data to travel. So a 1x card/slot has just one lane while a 2x has 2, a 4x has 4 and so on. And as you can imagine, doubling the number of lanes doubles the data transfer speed. Which brings us to generations As of writing this comment, there are 4 generations of PCIe: 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 and 4.0. For our purposes, the only difference between the generations is that the data transfer rate in each lane doubles with each successive generation. In PCIe 1.0, each lane supports upto 250 MB/s -> So if you had a PCIe 1.0 4x card/slot, the data transfer rate would be 4*250 MB/s = 1 GB/s In PCIe 2.0, each lane supports upto 500 MB/s -> So if you had a PCIe 2.0 4x card/slot, the data transfer rate would be 4*500 MB/s = 2 GB/s In PCIe 3.0, each lane supports upto 1 GB/s In PCIe 4.0, each lane supports upto 2 GB/s Hope this helps :)
So, when we talk about PCI Express, I really didn't get what that expansion slot is. Do you slot in the expansion slot in order for some peripheral devices work and Jack it into? Does video card named PCI Express too? I'm confused 😓😫
That's all I needed to know in one simple video. I don't build very often but when I do this has always been somewhat confusing for me. You hit this one out of the park. Thank you.
bet you didnt think that 7 yrs after this video posted.. i could still use it as a link to send, to have you explain something.. i didnt want to take the time to type out and explain myself, lol, Thanks Past Linus... your really on the ball buddy:)
whenever I feel bad about myself I watch this video because there's no thing in this world that makes me feel happier than watching someone explain this and to do it within a video format
THANK YOU! I was searching all over the web trying to figure this out. You made it simple to understand, and saved me from buying a VERY inferior product!
I have a noob question, hoping anyone here knows for sure, I have a ASUS M5A97 motherboard, and an old Radeon HD 6850 GPU, if I want to upgrade the GPU, having a R9 290 or a GTX 980 in mind (whichever would fit better with my AMD FX-8350 processor), will I have to change the motherboard as well? Or I'll be good to go? I understand there's R9 290 that are PCI-e 2.0 (or all they work on PCI-e 2.0?), but I want to be sure 'cause noob.
If you want the expected performance of the R9 280 or GTX 980, you have to get a new motherboard that supports PCIe 3.0 x16 slots. Running on a PCIe 2.0 x16 slot is ok, but like in the video, performance is dropped by half.
Rolf Jene I don't see the need to use those words, but alright. GPUs age often, you don't need a GTX 980 to play games in Ultra? You may be surprised in the next months then, VXGI is and will be only available in the newest gen's GPUs (and is something everyone should really check out), also, comparing benchmarking results is the definitive way to prove which GPU is stronger and when, have you seen the results for all these GPUs? DirectX11 works like crap in the 7xx series compared to the 9xx, same thing with Radeon's older GPUs compared to R9 2xx series (it's obvious, isn't? They're newer). Do you think developers will keep this DIrectX9 and DirectX10 support in the next years? Any older GPU will age very quickly in the next months so I'm thinking mostly about the near future gaming because wasting money in the awakening of a new generation in gaming on an older GPU seems stupid to me.
GiggleHz Yeah I actually saw a purtuguese (or br?) vdeo that showed the performance on both, PCIe 2.0 is like 1-3 fps slower in 3D Mark, not too much, but I'm still worried that that would change in future games; though, I won't buy a new mobo, that's for sure, I'll go with PCIe 2.0 for now :3
Thanks Linus, I was going to buy a pci express WLAN card now I know that it will work on my pci expess x16 slot on my MOBO an MSI B85M gaming, going to install it on the second slot, the first was occupied by my gtx 960
Can I double thumbs up? no. The only better thing that Linus could do is to say all the speeds for all the port types/gens. but well at least he gave a reference - 2:32 - it's 250 mb/s for gen 1 PCIe slot and it doubles if you up gen or length. so if I use PCIe gen. 3 x4 SSD card (which has ~ 2 GB/s bandwidth) in a PCIe gen 2 slot x1 it'll be limited to a little below 500mb/s, but (according to video) it will work. That's all I need to know. Thanks and yes, I don't mind if they replace my broken Intel 535 480Gb ssd with an intel 750 series 400 gb ssd on PCIe even though I won't use it to it's max potential. Thank you very much.
not really the pci-e gens boost in speed are pointless, its like a 1% gain and in some cases for pci x16 2.0 will run faster. not to mention you have to force enable nvidia cards to run 3.0.
@@brandonHines76 How is this speed measured (GB/s, GHz, or FLOPs)? I don't build PCs, but I am fascinated in this technology, since some of my friends have built a PC, or have siblings who build PCs. FLOPs are a useless measurement, but I love them nonetheless. The world's fastest supercomputer from 1998-2003 has the same flops as modern high end GPU (1.0 to 10 TeraFLOPS)
@@djkingspindoc This is only a "nickname". The real username of your channel is coded as "UCOVV0HXGxPzOrYAa7NwgFAg" and his real username of his channel is "UC5Ui6-EuZ6kdw-uE9qU8LnQ". That's why they are unique on youtube.
Great topic, once again Linus has made sense of something so ubiquitous, yet always mystifying. You certainly deserve the title of KING OF RUclips TECH!
OMFG I hear so many of the same questions: Can I run second gen in third? Can I run third gen in second? YES YOU FREAKING CAN! IT IS SAID IN THE VIDEO! Only your bandwidth will be restricted to the lower of the two.
Thanks. This really helps a lot, and saying it as fast as possible helps too! It's really boring to to have to shift through so many online websites that are saturated with all kinds of information, with no visual aid, yet this substitutes all of that, and makes it quick and informative! Please keep doing more videos
It will work but... performance loss. Maybe not very much. On a test with GTX 1080, there was a difference of maximum 5-10 FPS. Make sure the PCI 2.0 is x16, otherwse it will not work.
Linus always has really good tips and considering that my tension span is like 0 sometimes I can still watch the vids all the way through because they are NOT boring :D
plus you need a cpu that support's PCIe 3.0 (i think you forgot that) *CPU That support PCIe 3.0 are all the cpu after the 2nd gen of intel's cpu ( no idea about amd)
mitsakos-kun Last i knew, current CPU's by AMD still do not have support for PCI 3.0, even though they make a PCI 3.0 GPU, the new AM4 CPU's (with DDR4 support as well) will have PCI 3.0 support
well there is one, www.asus.com/Motherboards/SABERTOOTH_990FXGEN3_R20/ so far the only AMD motherboard with support for PCI-e 3.0, there is support on the CPU, just motherboard manufacturers don't make AMD ones with 3.0 on it, only high priced ones
It shouldn't "destroy" the PCIe 3.0 GPU but rather performance just wouldn't be at maximum capacity. This situation is called "bottle-necking" if I'm not mistaken. If I'm understanding everything correctly, less bandwidth will be going to your graphics card because the 2.0 slot the previous generation or just isn't as current as the GPU.
From what I've read, it actually wouldn't affect the performance that much (if at all). There is very little (if any) discernible difference between modern GPUs running in x16 vs x8 slots in gen 3, and an x8 gen 3 slot is equivalent in bandwidth to a x16 gen 2 slot. Thus you can conclude that a modern GPU would not be affected if you used an x16 gen 2 PCIe slot.
Hi from the Soviet Russia! ;))) Some videocards with the tire PCI Express 3.0 (for example ASUS R7260X-DC2OC-1GD5) not correctly work in the slot of PCI Express 1.0 So not everything is so simple...
Yes it is, get a motherboard with a PCIE 3.0 gen slot and put it into that. For example if you have a GPU that requires a PCIE 3.0 16x slot then you put it into that slot for maximum performance, anything lower will bottleneck it.
WayT101 Further, if you bottleneck any card (video included) to severely it will not work at all. Hence the Russian suggesting that his PCIe3.0 not working in a PCIe1.0. That video card needs every bit of a 2GB/s bandwidth to perform as intended. Linus said it will fit "and work" at the lower speed but if the lower speed isn't enough for the card to perform even basic functions your computer will probably still recognize it's connected but not be able to do anything with it.
HEY MAN . IM NOT A GAMER AT ALL AND NEVER WILL BE . MY PC IS PRETTY GOOD WITH PCI-E 3.0 x16 SLOT BUT IT CANNOT PLAY VIDEOS PROPERLY SMOOTHLY OVER 1080P ON YOU TUBE AND ON MY PC ...... WHAT GRAPHIC CARD SHOULD I GET ????? THANK YOU
ahh that was super useful, I built my last PC 15 years ago, PCI and AGP was the last I used (anyone remember ISA?) and haven't touched hardware since - now I know what PCIe is in all those specs today! EDIT: but I still need to roll forward 10 years! haha
I remember ISA. In fact, my dad was holding onto a very taaaaalll tower with ISA slots until it was tossed around by a tornado here in AZ just last year. We could finally dump the thing.
While it was a good explanation, many many things were left out. I had to watch like, 10 other videos to understand the terms. I'm leaving this explanation for other people like me:
Firstly, PCI stands for Peripheral Component Interconnect A peripheral is anything that isn't part of the core computing process i.e. secondary (eg keyboard, mouse, GPU, LAN). PCI is thus an interface for these accessories to connect to the motherboard.
While PCI was first introduced in 1992, because its speed is inherently limited (because of how the technology works), it was replaced by the PCI express (abbr PCIe) in 2004. Basically, PCIe >>>>> PCI.
Now for the numbers. There are 5 types of PCIe slots/cards. They are: 1x, 2x, 4x, 8x and 16x. The numbers on these correspond to the number of lanes on the slot/card. What's a lane? A lane, like that for vehicles, is a path for data to travel. So a 1x card/slot has just one lane while a 2x has 2, a 4x has 4 and so on. And as you can imagine, doubling the number of lanes doubles the data transfer speed.
Which brings us to generations As of writing this comment, there are 4 generations of PCIe: 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 and 4.0. For our purposes, the only difference between the generations is that the data transfer rate in each lane doubles with each successive generation.
In PCIe 1.0, each lane supports upto 250 MB/s
-> So if you had a PCIe 1.0 4x card/slot, the data transfer rate would be 4*250 MB/s = 1 GB/s
In PCIe 2.0, each lane supports upto 500 MB/s
-> So if you had a PCIe 2.0 4x card/slot, the data transfer rate would be 4*500 MB/s = 2 GB/s
In PCIe 3.0, each lane supports upto 1 GB/s
In PCIe 4.0, each lane supports upto 2 GB/s
Hope this helps :)
Feynstein 100 wow thank you for that. It helps a noobie like me alot!
Thanks for this comprehensive explanation! Helped a lot :)
So, when we talk about PCI Express, I really didn't get what that expansion slot is. Do you slot in the expansion slot in order for some peripheral devices work and Jack it into? Does video card named PCI Express too? I'm confused 😓😫
You are a life saver, thanks for this it definitely makes this video more clear
Excellent
I love to rewatch his old videos. I first subscribed to him when he had 10 videos and now he has 200+. Fascinating how time flies and quality changes.
If only you knew... 6 years later and we're approaching 4 million...
That's all I needed to know in one simple video. I don't build very often but when I do this has always been somewhat confusing for me. You hit this one out of the park. Thank you.
They're upwards compatible! 0_0 I learned something new today! Liked!
+Imbacore If it didn't, I would be in some serious crap. xD
Dr Nooberious Haha! Thanks for the confirmation. My mobo has run out of PCI x1 slots so I previously thought I couldn't install a sound card. :D
lol
Man what ever you need ... Linus will always have you covered with a vid
bet you didnt think that 7 yrs after this video posted.. i could still use it as a link to send, to have you explain something.. i didnt want to take the time to type out and explain myself, lol, Thanks Past Linus... your really on the ball buddy:)
whenever I feel bad about myself I watch this video because there's no thing in this world that makes me feel happier than watching someone explain this and to do it within a video format
Spent my morning reading confusing articles to understand it and stumbled by this video that did it for me in 3 mins.
THANK YOU! I was searching all over the web trying to figure this out. You made it simple to understand, and saved me from buying a VERY inferior product!
It's funny to re-watch this old video in september 2024 ^^ Meanwhile, I still daily use my Asus Maximus V Extreme to this day 😂
this guy is the only reason im going to pass my comp tia exam
almost 11 year old video and i'm still using it to learn. Thanks Linus Media Group.
The camera guy's face at 0:46 :D :D perfect, thanks Techquickie!
This video was 8 years ago, damn such a good quality
I cant tell you how much your videos help me with my computer questions. Thanks
You are the best. I have needed to learn more about the computers we use to make videos and stream. :D keep doin what you're doin.
That was a lot more information than I was expecting. That really was a quickie!
Customer vs Gaming vs Business level electronics, that could be a interesting episode
thx alot.... searched very long for the infos u get in this video. so thx for this! greetings from germany!
2:54 when you go through the door and everyone's there at your surprise party
I have a noob question, hoping anyone here knows for sure, I have a ASUS M5A97 motherboard, and an old Radeon HD 6850 GPU, if I want to upgrade the GPU, having a R9 290 or a GTX 980 in mind (whichever would fit better with my AMD FX-8350 processor), will I have to change the motherboard as well? Or I'll be good to go? I understand there's R9 290 that are PCI-e 2.0 (or all they work on PCI-e 2.0?), but I want to be sure 'cause noob.
If you want the expected performance of the R9 280 or GTX 980, you have to get a new motherboard that supports PCIe 3.0 x16 slots. Running on a PCIe 2.0 x16 slot is ok, but like in the video, performance is dropped by half.
71ruinsigil Yeah, that was what I was afraid of... They say built desktop PCs are not as expensive as everyone thinks, but goddamn it still is...
Rolf Jene I don't see the need to use those words, but alright. GPUs age often, you don't need a GTX 980 to play games in Ultra? You may be surprised in the next months then, VXGI is and will be only available in the newest gen's GPUs (and is something everyone should really check out), also, comparing benchmarking results is the definitive way to prove which GPU is stronger and when, have you seen the results for all these GPUs? DirectX11 works like crap in the 7xx series compared to the 9xx, same thing with Radeon's older GPUs compared to R9 2xx series (it's obvious, isn't? They're newer). Do you think developers will keep this DIrectX9 and DirectX10 support in the next years? Any older GPU will age very quickly in the next months so I'm thinking mostly about the near future gaming because wasting money in the awakening of a new generation in gaming on an older GPU seems stupid to me.
GiggleHz Yeah I actually saw a purtuguese (or br?) vdeo that showed the performance on both, PCIe 2.0 is like 1-3 fps slower in 3D Mark, not too much, but I'm still worried that that would change in future games; though, I won't buy a new mobo, that's for sure, I'll go with PCIe 2.0 for now :3
none cuz the amd will bottle neck them all.
hahahahahah pause at 2:54 or 2:53 hhahhahaha
haha
Thanks for the great video. I can imagine the amount of work that goes into each one. Very much appreciated.
2019 baby, I'm still here
this guy always make me feel that i have a brick not a pc even with the most powerful pc
thanks, very clear as always! AS FAST AS POSSIBLE: AFAP
Thanks Linus, I was going to buy a pci express WLAN card now I know that it will work on my pci expess x16 slot on my MOBO an MSI B85M gaming, going to install it on the second slot, the first was occupied by my gtx 960
I will look you up when ever I have a problem !!! Thanks !!!!
In 2 minutes I saved hours and hours and £'s of effort, time, buying and returning incorrect components.Thanks
PCIe 3.0 was around for like 10 years, it had a really long life
Just learned this. Thank you Linus and Co
I really needed the information you presented here. Thanks!
Linus has made a video for every stupid question I have.
Thanks Linus. Almost thought I wireless card that was incompatible. Good to go.
Thank you. Short and precise explanation
such a perfect video straight to the point everything i was looking to learn
there is no way this guy will surpass even 1,000 subscribers one day.
Great explanation. Thanks for clarifying.
Fantastic video, thanks!
Can I double thumbs up? no. The only better thing that Linus could do is to say all the speeds for all the port types/gens. but well at least he gave a reference - 2:32 - it's 250 mb/s for gen 1 PCIe slot and it doubles if you up gen or length. so if I use PCIe gen. 3 x4 SSD card (which has ~ 2 GB/s bandwidth) in a PCIe gen 2 slot x1 it'll be limited to a little below 500mb/s, but (according to video) it will work. That's all I need to know. Thanks and yes, I don't mind if they replace my broken Intel 535 480Gb ssd with an intel 750 series 400 gb ssd on PCIe even though I won't use it to it's max potential. Thank you very much.
Fantastic, fast and clear explanation, thank you!!! :)
Thanks for the video - was very helpful - as just bought a USB 3 controller
Thank god. I wasn't sure if you could put 1x in 16x
This is very clean for being so old
great vid man, just what I needed to know!
awesome clip, keep up the good work
This was so clear and direct thank you ! :D
great video - very helpful information. Kudos to you!!!!
this is new and exciting information
Great video and no slurrrrr thanks!
Thanks for sharing this! Most important features, only the essence without tech jargon and bla bla bla... 🤣
That was low key so imformative
Explained Very Well 👍👍
8 year old video and I'm still using it to learn. Thanks Linus Media Group.
yep
Yeah it's fun n weird 😂
No thank you
10 yaers for me now
I'm here at 2024 😂 🎉 trying to learn for my first PC build 🥇
Awesome video! Thanks!
10 year old video and I'm still using it to learn. Thanks Linus from the past!!
10 years ago wow
11 now
11 now ^^ Looks like YT likes to submit old videos sometimes ^^
how he did not drop the motherboard is beyond me.
Plugged my potato into the pci slot. Running crysis 3 on max settings hitting 144 fps
is that a sweet potato? whats the temps like?
4k res?
Can you wrap it in bacon??? It will make it at least 10x faster you know.
BaconOfTheDarkSide Bacon makes everything better.
meh my apple barely does 40 fps on medium :(
0:47 lmfaoo Luke?
LOL
kek, thats luke at 0:47
HAHAHAHAHAHAH
OMFG HAHAHAHHAHAHA
XD LTT MUST THAT MAKE OSTEN!
so lesson learned. always go for the latest MOBO, but error 404: money not found.
not really the pci-e gens boost in speed are pointless, its like a 1% gain and in some cases for pci x16 2.0 will run faster. not to mention you have to force enable nvidia cards to run 3.0.
Loll
That's the story of most out lives
@@brandonHines76 How is this speed measured (GB/s, GHz, or FLOPs)? I don't build PCs, but I am fascinated in this technology, since some of my friends have built a PC, or have siblings who build PCs.
FLOPs are a useless measurement, but I love them nonetheless. The world's fastest supercomputer from 1998-2003 has the same flops as modern high end GPU (1.0 to 10 TeraFLOPS)
0:46 Luke's Reflection. :DDDD
I'm the only Chaos . How'd you pull that off?
@@djkingspindoc This is only a "nickname". The real username of your channel is coded as "UCOVV0HXGxPzOrYAa7NwgFAg" and his real username of his channel is "UC5Ui6-EuZ6kdw-uE9qU8LnQ". That's why they are unique on youtube.
@@MichaelReznoR you missed the joke.
That Slick.
Michael ReznoR wooosh
Thanks linus.. cleared up alot of things for me
+Anthony H Agreed, I've always been confused with the PCI express slots. This video certainly helped me, understand it better. Thanks Linus.
I can see Luke's face in the reflection of the sound card. Looks pretty evil.
wow, I'm here in 2019 and I'm like woah
Now that pcie express 4.0
RUclips recommends this
Yes! I found another video from A FAP series!
Well... That sounded better in my head...
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Thanks bro
Thanks to AMD
PCIE 4.0 is here
Watching in 2019. Who needs a college course when you got Linus. :-)
1:12
WHAT
THE SLOTS ARE ADAPTABLE
I HAD NO IDEA THANK YOU LINUS
Do u know if a wifi card will work in the gpu slot?
Great topic, once again Linus has made sense of something so ubiquitous, yet always mystifying. You certainly deserve the title of KING OF RUclips TECH!
Awesome. I wasn't aware I could use the smaller ones in a pinch.
OMFG
I hear so many of the same questions:
Can I run second gen in third? Can I run third gen in second?
YES YOU FREAKING CAN!
IT IS SAID IN THE VIDEO!
Only your bandwidth will be restricted to the lower of the two.
Thank god I was quite confused I got a new graphics card coming tomorrow but its3.0 and my motherboard has 2.0 so thanks
jolanpiep yeah and for most graphics cards doesn't make a difference.
I LOVE U
PRINCE POTATO How about gen 1 card in a gen 3 slot? Will the gen 3 slot downclock to gen1 speeds?
@@agoodsheperd880 yes
Is it just me or does Linus look really stoned in this video?
he turned back and saw the white background
Now that I have medicine for my ADHD this was actually much easier to understand than the first time I watched it without Adderall.
Young Linux found
7 years be flying by like:
Thanks. This really helps a lot, and saying it as fast as possible helps too! It's really boring to to have to shift through so many online websites that are saturated with all kinds of information, with no visual aid, yet this substitutes all of that, and makes it quick and informative! Please keep doing more videos
Am planning to buy a EVGA GTX 750Ti Sc (PCIe v3.0 x 16) but my mobo have a PCIe v2.0 x 16 slot. My question is will it work? Performance losses?
Ud4Y it will probably work try and google it
It will work but... performance loss. Maybe not very much. On a test with GTX 1080, there was a difference of maximum 5-10 FPS. Make sure the PCI 2.0 is x16, otherwse it will not work.
his body movements is freaking me out.
Linus always has really good tips and considering that my tension span is like 0 sometimes I can still watch the vids all the way through because they are NOT boring :D
Are you Linus Tech Tips?
You sound like him and look like him.
Yes this is their channel
Orange Hachet Thank you for the reply! Appreciated it!
Justin Lee Sabio no problem
ha, although Linux and Mac both share the unix family line, it's kinda true.
This was a fantastic and thorough explanation. Answered a ton of questions I had! Short, concise, no blabber, just straight to the point.
plus you need a cpu that support's PCIe 3.0 (i think you forgot that)
*CPU That support PCIe 3.0 are all the cpu after the 2nd gen of intel's cpu ( no idea about amd)
mitsakos-kun Last i knew, current CPU's by AMD still do not have support for PCI 3.0, even though they make a PCI 3.0 GPU, the new AM4 CPU's (with DDR4 support as well) will have PCI 3.0 support
Dale Nichols Nice job amd making your cpus have pci 3.0 while intel making there new skylake having pci 4.0 support
well there is one,
www.asus.com/Motherboards/SABERTOOTH_990FXGEN3_R20/
so far the only AMD motherboard with support for PCI-e 3.0, there is support on the CPU, just motherboard manufacturers don't make AMD ones with 3.0 on it, only high priced ones
2:53 wtff
Its been 5 years and its time to see his expression again😃
Lmao
Wait what would happen if you put a pcie 3.0 gpu in a pcie 2.0 slot?
It would destroy it
It shouldn't "destroy" the PCIe 3.0 GPU but rather performance just wouldn't be at maximum capacity. This situation is called "bottle-necking" if I'm not mistaken.
If I'm understanding everything correctly, less bandwidth will be going to your graphics card because the 2.0 slot the previous generation or just isn't as current as the GPU.
Yeah I was only kidding
Narolfs from a read its very slight, so i should be good thanks.
From what I've read, it actually wouldn't affect the performance that much (if at all). There is very little (if any) discernible difference between modern GPUs running in x16 vs x8 slots in gen 3, and an x8 gen 3 slot is equivalent in bandwidth to a x16 gen 2 slot. Thus you can conclude that a modern GPU would not be affected if you used an x16 gen 2 PCIe slot.
Hi from the Soviet Russia! ;))) Some videocards with the tire PCI Express 3.0 (for example ASUS R7260X-DC2OC-1GD5) not correctly work in the slot of PCI Express 1.0 So not everything is so simple...
Yes it is, get a motherboard with a PCIE 3.0 gen slot and put it into that.
For example if you have a GPU that requires a PCIE 3.0 16x slot then you put it into that slot for maximum performance, anything lower will bottleneck it.
WayT101 Further, if you bottleneck any card (video included) to severely it will not work at all. Hence the Russian suggesting that his PCIe3.0 not working in a PCIe1.0. That video card needs every bit of a 2GB/s bandwidth to perform as intended. Linus said it will fit "and work" at the lower speed but if the lower speed isn't enough for the card to perform even basic functions your computer will probably still recognize it's connected but not be able to do anything with it.
Wol Wol you play too much of call of duty games
can I use a GPU with PCI e 3.0 x16 with my pci e 2.0 x16 motherboard??
but is it bottlenecked o_0 ?
It might be bottlenecked, tho.
y altschuler ive looked it up and the benchmarks for 2.0 vs 3.0 appear to be the same thankfully ... but it prob depends on the card
jvemPiRe14 Okay, great! Sounds like you'll be alright, sebastian bachman! :D
so a the new 1070 would work on my motherboard with a pci 2.0 express slot???
I think I'm beginning to learn. Just in time! PCI 3.0 IS THE FUTURE, FOREVER... FOREVER... forever... forget
Excellent explanation! I would have spent so much time going over and over my study material just to wrap my brain around this. This helped so much!
HEY MAN . IM NOT A GAMER AT ALL AND NEVER WILL BE . MY PC IS PRETTY GOOD WITH PCI-E 3.0 x16 SLOT BUT IT CANNOT PLAY VIDEOS PROPERLY SMOOTHLY OVER 1080P ON YOU TUBE AND ON MY PC ...... WHAT GRAPHIC CARD SHOULD I GET ????? THANK YOU
I'm watching this in 2021 and It's still helpful
11 year old video and I'm still using it to learn. Thanks Linus from the past!!
Trying to save money by using a old mother board with a 5year old cheap gpu, even tho this video is 10 years old, it still helps
11 years, but concise and to the point, quality doesn't loose relevance I guess🤔
ahh that was super useful, I built my last PC 15 years ago, PCI and AGP was the last I used (anyone remember ISA?) and haven't touched hardware since - now I know what PCIe is in all those specs today! EDIT: but I still need to roll forward 10 years! haha
I remember ISA. In fact, my dad was holding onto a very taaaaalll tower with ISA slots until it was tossed around by a tornado here in AZ just last year. We could finally dump the thing.
"1x... 4x... 8x... and 16x"
(*huge lightbulb moment*)
Thanks, this video is very to-the-point.
his voice doesn't change a bit, i can't guess when was the video uploaded, i need to look at his face because he have a beard and a beanie
hey i have mb that support PCIe 2.0 x16 can i put 1050ti in there?
Young Linus what is a pex 16 ?
Wow, don't usually comment on these. That was a super brief explanation that I totally understood without tuning all the way in. Thanks.