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PCI-E slots of ASUS P8Z77-M Motherboard
Hello to everyone!
I need help regarding my motherboard's graphics card slots. It does have two PCI-e x16 slots: one is "black" and one is "blue". At first, I am using the blue one because, according to the manual, it has better performance than the black one. But, something had occurred that I need to move the card to the black one, and after doing this, I noticed the large difference in performance, forcing me to reduce graphics quality settings of my 3D games (example, The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim) from ULTRA to HIGH. It is not playable when I do not reduce the settings..
Question: Can someone advice me how to improve the performance of my graphics card back to normal (or better) without returning it to the blue slot? I read some articles about "overclocking" but I don't think it will be of any help to me because I doubt my cooling system is good enough to handle high temperatures that "it" does.
Thanks to all who will help. :)