Some flickering occurred sometimes while I am playing AoEo. Therefore I checked my hardware and within the catalyst control center the graphic bus is shown as:

PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 2.0 x16.

My graphics card is a Saphire Radeon HD 7770 series witch should support PCI Express 3.0.

Could anyone give me some information what is running wrong? I’ve updated all drivers and checked all settings within the Bios, windows and graphics card.

Thanks in advance 

Rwing

Graphics Card
Saphire AMD Radeon HD 7700 Ghz edition, vapor-x

PCI Express 2.0

PCI Express 2.0 x16

Biosvers. 015.020.000.000

Biosdate 2012/05/02

Catalyst Control Center-Version: 2012.0928.1532.26058

The version before: I do not know

No OC has been done. There are just vendor settings

Power Supply : Be-quiet 500 W

Motherboard or System Make & Model

Mainboard : ASRock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3

System BIOS : 63-0100-000001-00101111-082311-Chipset

System BIOS : AMI (OEM) P1.30 11/22/2011

Intel vPro : 7.01.10.1065

Gesamtspeicher : 7.91GB DIMM DDR3

Modell : ASRock Core (Sandy Bridge) DRAM Controller

OEM Gerätename : Intel Core (Sandy Bridge) DRAM Controller

Display Device(s) and Connection(s) Used

LG:   L227W

Prozessor : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz (4C 4.59GHz/6GHz, 4.6GHz IMC, 2x 256kB L2, 6MB L3)

Additional Hardware

ADATA SSD S511 120GB (100GB, RAID0/SATA600, SCSI-4, SSD) : 93GB (C

SAMSUNG SP2504C (250GB, SATA300, 3.5", 7200rpm, 8MB Cache) : 233GB (D (E (G

System Memory Type & Amount

memorycontroller : ASRock Core (Sandy Bridge) DRAM Controller 100MHz, 2x 4GB DIMM DDR3 1.87GHz/1.33GHz 128-bit

Speichermodul : G.Skill F3-14900CL9-4GBSR 4GB DIMM DDR3 PC3-14900U DDR3-1866 (11-11-11-29 5-40-13-6)

Windows: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 6.01.7601 (Service Pack 1)               : x64

Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series (10CU 640SP SM5.0 1.1GHz/1GHz 10% OC, 1GB DDR5 5.2GHz 128-bit, PCIe 2.00 x16)

Bus 1

Type : PCIe 2.00 x16 5Gbps

Multiplication : 3x

Bridge : Intel Core (Sandy Bridge) PCI Express Root Port

Gerät: PC Partner Cape Verde [Radeon HD 7700 Series]

Other grafic : Bus 0, Gerät 2, Funktion 0

Windows name : Intel(R) HD Graphics 3000

OEM enginename : Intel Core (Sandy Bridge) Integrated Graphics Controller (GT2)

OEM Hardware Nr. : VEN_8086, DEV_0112, REV_09

Enginename : ASRock Core (Sandy Bridge) Integrated Graphics Controller (GT2)

Produkt Nr. : VEN_1849, DEV_0112, REV_09

Revision : A10

According to the Asrock website, you need a CPU that supports PCIe 3.0 as well (22 nm 3rd generation i5 or i7). Do you have such a CPU?

CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 810 @ 3250MHz | RAM: Kingmax 2x2GB DDR2 800 @ 833MHz| MoBo: MSI K9A2 CF v1.0 (BIOS: 1.D)| GPU: Asus HD 6850 1024MB (DirectCu) @ 850/1100MHz | Display: Chili Green Vision L24FHD | PSU: PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Quad | OS: MS Windows 95 x64 Edition

CPU: Pentium 4 Northwood S478 @ 3200MHz | RAM: 1,5GB DDR 400| MoBo: Gigabyte GA-8S661FXMP-RZ | GPU: Abit Geforce Ti 4200 | Display: Dimarson 19" CRT | PSU: Noname 400W | OS: MS Windows XP Pro, Fedora 18

This seems to be the reason. It is a

Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz with a SNB (Sandy Bridge) Core v2 2C/4C 32nm .

Thanks for the information.

rwing