Will I be limited with my PCIE 2.0 in the distant future?

[jsmith0000]

I only game on 1080P monitors.

Bought a new mainboard H81 chipset and GTX 970 and core i3 only realized after I could have bought a B85 wiith PCIE 3.0

Now I am worried that maybe down the road 8 or 12 years from now I will be limited with my 2.0 PCIE slot.

Am I going to have an issue on my 1080P monitor many many years down the road? How long and what exactly will it take for PCIE 2.0 to see a significant drop in FPS like starting with 15% and more?

Or is the 1150 socket and actual life of the motherboard, (2 socket for max 16GB RAM) be outdated to run anything by the time I cap out my PCIE 2.0 port bandwidth?

 

[JeffMD]

You will have more issues then just your pci slot if you are still trying to game on that thing 8 years from now. The socket is currently on the way out with the skylake cpu's. You purchased a bottom of the line haswell motherboard, as thus that is your computers life span.

 

[Kenmitch]

You will have more issues then just your pci slot if you are still trying to game on that thing 8 years from now. The socket is currently on the way out with the skylake cpu's. You purchased a bottom of the line haswell motherboard, as thus that is your computers life span.

Little harsh.

As far as 8-10yrs go....Unrealistic even with today's latest and greatest hardware.

As far as your rig goes....It'll last till it no longer does what you need it to do.

 

[MongGrel]

PCIE 2.0 is all ready a bit old, even if I still use it atm...

 

[Atreidin]

No you're fine.