Flav wrote on Mar 8
th, 2016 at 2:44pm:
And what about PCI-E 1.x ?
PCIe 1.x x16 slots are the same bandwidth as PCIe 2x x8 slots.
They provide more than enough bandwidth for contemporary video cards up to about GTX970.
Flav wrote on Mar 8
th, 2016 at 2:44pm:
Trust me, I did endure bus saturation on my old computer...
I understand that you think you did. I looked into the hardware you posted as your old build and think you are misreading your experience.
Flav wrote on Mar 8
th, 2016 at 2:44pm:
Now consider that lots of people ( though not the majority ) uses laptop to play...
You get the picture ? ( between the castrated CPU/GPU and the low spec PCI-E interface it's enough to crash at desert, king forest and necro... at least )
This has fuck all to do with PCIe bus saturation.
Lousy video cards do not saturate the PCIe bus. That's not how PCIe bus saturation works.
Flav wrote on Mar 8
th, 2016 at 2:44pm:
Or said another way when my old rig crashed beyond repair, I changed it, but kept the graphic card ( that was relativley new ).
Same graphic card, going from Pentium D930 to I5-4660, so from PCI-E1 1.1 to PCI-E 3.0 crashes went away.
The issue was the PCI-E Bus.
I'm sure you also did a bare metal install of Windows to the new hardware and made other environmental changes beyond swapping old motherboard/processor/RAM.
The picture I get is that you misunderstand your experience.
I'm not saying that the upgrade didn't sort out your problem.
I'm saying that your problem wasn't "PCIe bus saturation", because when that happens the result isn't application crashes and your video card doesn't move enough data over the bus to cause it.