Maybe upgrading is pointless… - PCI-E Gen 4 vs Gen 3

Confused by PCIE ! Is my 'budget' AlderLake 6500XT build okay? pcie 4 gpu in pcie 3 slot PCIe vs PCIe pcie slot function It should be backward compatible, but you will see less performance than if you had it in a PCIe slot since it runs at PCIe x8 instead

pcie 2 slot Where the real improvement will come is in programs that offload compute intensive threads to the GPU In this area, PCIe 4 will result in a