PCI-e 3.0 GPU + MoBo + Ivy CPU = PCI-e 2.0 ???

Dwarf said:

Take a look at the following links. Scroll down to the section Expansion Options and note what it says for PCI Express Revision.

My CPU: ARK | Intel® Core

Your CPU: ARK | Intel® Core

According to the above, your CPU only supports v2.0 whereas mine supports v3.0.

Yes I have just seen this on another forum too. I think this is the correct answer.

So my main concern was based on a faulty assumption about all Ivy bridge CPUs supporting PCI-e Gen3. Well clearly not all of them

Thank you for helping me sort this out :)

I will mark this as solved and live with what I get for a while. Maybe then I'll start worrying about my 3D Mark scores being at the minimum limit :)