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    Acer, 3820TG. PCI-Express running v1.1, how to change to v2.0?

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Pine Sol, Sep 30, 2011.

  1. Pine Sol

    Pine Sol Notebook Enthusiast

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    hello,

    have just bought this 3820TG-3022,

    just working through a few things....

    as the pic shows, how do i adjust it?

    cheers
     

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    Pine Sol, Sep 30, 2011
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  2. niffcreature

    niffcreature ex computer dyke

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    I think thats normal for a laptop, and I don't think your graphics card is pushing the limits of pcie 1.1

    PCI-E does not correlate to performance until there is something with enough bandwidth to make it a bottleneck.
     
    niffcreature, Oct 1, 2011
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  3. Pine Sol

    Pine Sol Notebook Enthusiast

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    ok, just trying to ensure that what little i have with performance hardware, that everything is running at its utmost...
     
    Pine Sol, Oct 8, 2011
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    prikolchik Notebook Evangelist

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    too456 Resident Angry Bird

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    I contacted Acer regarding this before, their Level 2 manager called me after some back-and-forth to explain that the laptop drops to PCI Express v1.1 in order to save power and will increase to PCI Express v2.0 when the bandwidth is needed. I have never seen it run at v2.0 before, so either it's a problem or I'm not playing very demanding games :)
     
    too456, Oct 9, 2011
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  6. Bronsky

    Bronsky Wait and Hope.

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    What is your Bios version? What Video drivers are you using? Are you using ePower?
     
    Bronsky, Oct 9, 2011
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