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Regarding this, how big is a PCIe slot?
PCIe slots come in different physicalconfigurations: x1, x4, x8, x16, x32. The number after the xtells you how many lanes (how data travels to and from thePCIe card) that PCIe slot has. A PCIe x1slot has one lane and can move data at one bit percycle.
Simply so, what is a PCI Express slot?
A high-speed hardware interface from Intel forconnecting peripheral devices. PCI Express (PCIe) wasintroduced in 2002, and by the mid-2000s, motherboards had at leastone PCIe slot for the graphics card. PCIe is alsoused for hard drives, SSDs, Wi-Fi and Ethernet.
If it has only one PCI Express x16 slot,the choice is easy, but some motherboards have more than one PCIExpress x16 slot for multiple graphics card support. Thegraphics card should go into the first PCI Expressx16 slot. However, lower slots are usually capable ofrunning the card as well.