Frequent, Sporadic AMD Driver Crashes: Intel Z97, Win7 x64, R9 270X

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  1. jchap1590
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    just noticed this.. PCIe is set to Gen3 x16 width in BIOS, not sure what the issue is

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  3. essenbe
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    I don't think that is a problem, I think it is that your CPU supports Gen 3. It's backward compatible with Gen 2.
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  4. jchap1590
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    essenbe said:
    I don't think that is a problem, I think it is that your CPU supports Gen 3. It's backward compatible with Gen 2.
    I was talking more about the link width, not so much the PCIe generation
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