7900gt Card running on 8x pcie

[ricehero]

why would this be happening the last thing i did was update the bios.

 

[SLCentral]

Doesn't matter. 8x won't give you less performance.

Maybe its in the wrong slot?

 

[Arcanedeath]

If you have an SLI board you if you have SLI jumpers enabled both of your physical x16 slots run at x8 speeds