Maybe upgrading is pointless… - PCI-E Gen 4 vs Gen 3

Make certain that you have updated your GEN 3 capable motherboard with the latest Motherboard BIOS and set the PCIe slot to the appropriate speed, not Auto It

It should also be noted that PCIe is backwards compatible You can put a card in a slot, or a card into a 3

pcie4 slot Hyper socket that supports PCIe Gen4 x4 while socket is capable of running PCIe Gen3 x2 and SATA3 mode AMD SMART ACCESS MEMORY Conventional PC systems

pcie 30 x4 slot PCIe Gen 3 vs PCIe Gen 4 PCIe offers twice the data rate and maximum bandwidth of PCIe , allowing faster data transfers The standard