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Experience With PCI Express X1 to X16 Adapter

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Does anyone know or have experience using this? Here's a link to one I found on newegg.

 

What exactly can this be used for? Can it perform as well with a GPU? 

 

My MoBo only has 1 PCI Express x16 and if I wanted to use another GPU could it work?

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I assume it can be used with a GPU, but it would be bottlenecked by the interface.

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I assume it can be used with a GPU, but it would be bottlenecked by the interface.

Not for coin mining.

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I'm not really sure the need for it... I always assumed you could put a gpu in a 1x slot.

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I assume it can be used with a GPU, but it would be bottlenecked by the interface.

How severely?

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I'm not really sure the need for it... I always assumed you could put a gpu in a 1x slot.

They don't even fit?

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IIRC approx. 10%+ performance penalty running at 1x. 

 

It depends in a lot of cases. The 1x greatly bottleneck max bandwidth, and in applications that need a lot of texture rendering and VRAM usage (i.e. not mining) then bottleneck is there. 

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They don't even fit?

Fair enough... I don't know why, but I could have sworn I heard that they were all compatible, you just lose bandwidth

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Some mobos implement open end 1x slots so that they are compatible with expansion cards that have larger connectors. I believe you can also cut the end wall off a 1x slot and use the slot normally but that might not be your cup of tea 

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Fair enough... I don't know why, but I could have sworn I heard that they were all compatible, you just lose bandwidth

 

 

Some mobos implement open end 1x slots so that they are compatible with expansion cards that have larger connectors. I believe you can also cut the end wall off a 1x slot and use the slot normally but that might not be your cup of tea 

 

Yep, as shown on LTT.

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