Comment on How do I fit a network card with a physical x4 slot into an x1 slot?
marauding_gibberish142@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week agoThe card only needs PCIE Gen 3 X2 == PCIE Gen 4 X1 in terms of bandwidth. I was hoping to fit it into the slot since it meets the bandwidth requirements
ryper@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
An x1 slot is an x1 slot, the PCIe version will downgrade but there will still only be one lane because that’s all the slot physically has connections for. It will effectively be a PCIe 3.0 x1 slot.
marauding_gibberish142@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Technically the slot is PCIe Gen 4 x1, but I understand. TBH PCIe gen 3 X1 is fine too, that’s more than 6 port Gigabit cards can saturate anyway.