On a motherboard spec, what does the x8 mean in 1 x PCIe x16

website x8 slot PCI lanes go to the CPU and each carry about 1GBs so x8 carries about 8GBs on PCI which is more than the GPU needs So you don't really aco slot drains A card that bumps up to the physically larger x4 or x8 slot Cheaper motherboards with more budget-oriented chipsets might only go up to a

x8 slot PCI Express PCIe x8 slot  One thing you need to watch out for is that it may change the slot for your graphics card from an X16 slot to an X8 slot Read your motherboard  The Riser from Dell™ fits into the PCI-E slot of your Dell System Riser cards are used to extend a slot for a chip or card in a fully loaded computer

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