Comment on How do I fit a network card with a physical x4 slot into an x1 slot?
marauding_gibberish142@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks agoIt doesn’t need that kind of bandwidth. 6 gigabit ports cannot saturate pcie gen 3 x1 in terms of bandwidth anyway.
What do I do if the card is PCIe gen 2 x8 though?
Markaos@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Potentially the same thing, assuming PCIe 2 x1 provides enough bandwidth.
Cort@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Pcie 2.0x1 would have a theoretical max of 4gbit/s so it would probably only handle 3.5 gigabit of connections simultaneously.