Thanks to the above hint from Rominator, SMIKX and myself were able to find the solder pads on the relatively ancient Sapphire Vapor-X HD5870 that control the PCIe Gen2 5 GT/s Link speed.
As long as someone puts this someplace near their "help" I am cool with stuff like this. BTW, I seem to recall that 5770 was similar.
There was a clown at MR who used to buy my cards and then go post "Here's how the 5.0 speed works" to get street cred.
I spent the HOURS figuring this out, he helped himself to the credit, whole lot easier to find after someone finds it first.
I could show you where on 4870 as well, it was further down, directly below the CF connector about middle of card.
R9 290X was a little tricker and I've only done 3 of them.
If I find time I'll find it on more recent cards, maybe Vega a good place to start?
I'm getting old and feeble. Eyes failing, hands shaking. Maybe time for young whipper snapper?
