GPU temperatures are consistently locked at 49 degrees while gaming

When I look at gpu z my gpu is only operating in x8 no matter the load If I bifurcate the pcie slot in the bios to x8x8 I can get the gpu

Use the force Pull steadily on the graphics card, until the GPU is out of the socket Don't yank it, don't move it side to side,

gpu stuck in pcie slot Unfortunately I don't have another video card available to test if the PCI-E slot is bad I haven't tried using the other PCI-E slot

gpu expansion slot GPU for the Pentium Slot 1 and Socket 370 That product came from ArtX and would be marketed to the OEM and motherboard manufacturers ATI said it would