PCI-E x16 card running at x8

[lunokhod]

Hi Everybody,

After doing some investigating, I have noticed that my video card (Gigabyte HD6850) is running at 8x speed instead of 16x in my motherboards (Gigabyte GA-P55-USB3) PCI-E x16 slot.

Does this limit things when it comes to Bitcoin mining in practical terms? 

I'm not sure why this is happening, is it caused by the motherboard or the video card?

Regards,

Lunokhod

[notaek]

There is no bottleneck there. You can even mine at 1x speeds.

[lunokhod]

OK thanks...   I'll still try and see what is going on, but good to know it's not affecting my mining performance.

[lauraharvey]

my PCI-E x16 card is running at x8 as well.