PCI-e PCI Express 4X Extension Cable

I found things online like riser cards that seem to take one 16x lane and split them into 2 8x lanes, or 4 4x lanes, etc My thinking was if I

PCI-e PCI Express 4X Extension Cable Two types of PCIe slot on an Asus H81M-K motherboard Various slots on a computer motherboard, from top to bottom: PCI Express x4; PCI Express x16; PCI Express

I found things online like riser cards that seem to take one 16x lane and split them into 2 8x lanes, or 4 4x lanes, etc My thinking was if I

4x4 joker slot That particular SSD card is only able to use 4x PCIe lanes so putting it in a 16x lane slot would make no difference at all In fact all but

If that's the case I would install it in the second PCIe x16 slot PCIe links are also full duplex so a PCIe 4x will be fine with a

4x4bet slot  RTX3090 24Go ! 10 years later so maybe the difference between pcie 4x et 16x make a huge difference ? So what was the solution for you ? 0 Kudos Reply

Most of the motherboard I see which have 4x PCIe 16x slots use in fact two slots as full 16x slots, and two as 8x slots, thus