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Or is the 1150 socket and actual life of the motherboard, (2 socket for max 16GB RAM) be outdated to run anything by the time I cap out my PCIE 2.0 port bandwidth?

 

[zir_blazer]

8 or 12 years? At that timeframe, you may as well purchase a new system that worrying if PCIe 2.0 will limit you. And when you hit that limit, your entire system will be obsolete for that matter.

I would worry more if humanity will still exist as we know it in 12 years to be honest.

 

[jsmith0000]

8 or 12 years? At that timeframe, you may as well purchase a new system that worrying if PCIe 2.0 will limit you. And when you hit that limit, your entire system will be obsolete for that matter.

I would worry more if humanity will still exist as we know it in 12 years to be honest.

Hi thanks I got the 3.7 GHZ i3 for $109 on newegg sale free shipping.

Decided its good for now and will buy a 4790K 8 years from now.

If i get 12 years out of this system I will be fine, I predict changing my 8GB to 16GB RAM which is the max this board can take will be obsolete before PCIE 2.0 hit its cap.

Quick question how long do you think 16GB of RAM is likely to last before it becomes minimum?

Games today are about VRAM rather than main RAM am I right?

 

[Wall Street]

I wouldn't worry about it. Situations where you are limited by PCI-E 2.0 are going to also be situations where a Core i3 and a GTX 970 are much much too slow.

 

[jsmith0000]

I wouldn't worry about it. Situations where you are limited by PCI-E 2.0 are going to also be situations where a Core i3 and a GTX 970 are much much too slow.

Yeah and all I wanna play for the next 10 years is DayZ and Arma 3 anyways.

 

[MongGrel]

 

[Unico]

Will you be limited by PCIe v2.0 in “the distant future”. Yup. You should upgrade to PCIe v4.0 as soon as possible. Unfortunately, PCIe v4.0 is already too slow to support Intel's new 3D XPOINT memory. Guess a fellow just can't win in this game. Best not to play.

 

[Techhog]

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.

What

Decided its good for now and will buy a 4790K 8 years from now.

What

Yeah and all I wanna play for the next 10 years is DayZ and Arma 3 anyways.

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Uh... You really shouldn't be trying to plan for a build lasting that long. There's absolutely no guarantee that it will. Planning out a CPU upgrade 8 years in advance is absolutely insane, since you don't even know what you might find in that time. And those games might not be popular for that long...

 

[SPBHM]

this is bad as it gets at the moment for gaming in terms of PCIE performance disadvantage for 2.0

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GTX_980_PCI-Express_Scaling/15.html

but it's running a much faster CPU and GPU, so I wouldn't worry, and in 7 years this kind of hardware will have a lot of other bottlenecks to worry about, so... PCIE 2.0 is not to relevant.

 

[StrangerGuy]

By the time PCIE 2.0 is becomes a bottleneck from god-knows-what GPU in the future, everything else now would be long obsolete.

 

[jsmith0000]

Thanks guys, this puts my mind at ease. Seems PCIE 2 will last me as long as the whole pc becomes obsolete.

 

[Burpo]

Some kids never learn..