MSI MPG B650 - Running 9070XT at PCIe4 x8

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Hello all.

I've been trying to troubleshoot my 9070XT which is only running PCIe4 at x8, when it should be at x16. I have tried everything from only having 1 M.2 drive (even though M2.1 & M2.4 should be fine), reseating the GPU, cleaning out the PCIe slot, updating the bios, running the render test in GPU-Z to make sure it isn't a power saving feature, changed the BIOS settings to emulate exactly what PCIe version it should be running etc etc, but I'm still stuck on this. Any recommendations?

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Ok cool.
There are few MPG B650 boards, but in general 1-2 of M.2 slots share bandwidth with the top PCIe connector. Double check your motherboard model and spec on the MSI website as it tells which M2 slots specifically share bandwidth.
 
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Double checked already - the 2nd and 3rd M.2 slots seem to share the bandwidth with the GPU, but I only have them in the 1st and 4th slot. I even tried only having the one in the top slot but that didn't work either still
 
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Very interesting.
One last thing I can suggest is that you re-seat the card, as well as update the BIOS. If it still doesn't work as intended then you may need to contact MSI for further help.
>>How to contact MSI.<<
 
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What's current BIOS version used?
Also provide detailed system specs, see >>Posting Guide<<

P.S: Moving topic to correct area. [not GPU [your GPU is not MSI one], but mainboard]
 
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