PCI Express Bandwidth Dilemma

[Xanders]

I have graphics card running at x16

I wish to install a wlan adapter as running ethernet is wayyy superior I'm afraid I can't do that, drilling hole or running cables on walls e everyone will murder me

I don't wish to sacrifice the GPU lanes to PCI e 3.0 x8, though I know this equates to PCIe 2.0 x16

Question How do I not sacrifice GPU lanes for the wlan card?

Asus r9 270x 2gb

Asus h97 pro gamer mobo

Single stick 4gb ddr3 1600mhz

Need more details I can provide?

[JohnFlower]

Lol... You could use a single GTX 980 and still not bottleneck x16 PCIe 2.0. PCIe 3.0 is currently a marketing gimmick to suck young players in.

Why cant you keep the graphics card where it is and put the wireless adapter in another PCI(e) slot?

Edit: Clarified PCIe 3.0

Edited October 18, 2014 by JohnFlower

[Xanders]

Lol thx for the reply was doing so.e research before I read yr post, tur s out most games can't utilized all of the bandwidth I've seen benchmarks pciex16 2.0 working just as fine as 3.0 in x8

It would make more sense putting the wlan in the seconx pcie slot instead to get the most bandwidth

Thx for the clarification John

[JohnFlower]

It's not the games, it's the graphics cards themselves. They cant push enough data to bottleneck x16 PCIe 2.0 currently. Things may be different if you have an SLI/Crossfire setup.

[ZeroPenguins]

Wait what? 8X lanes for PCIe 3.0 = 7.877 Gbit/s X 8 = 63.016 Gbit/s = 7.877 GB/s.

 

I don't see a bottleneck there.....