Hey there. Relatively new here, getting sick of the toxic/superior attitudes over at StackExchange. Hopefully someone can help me understand the question below without yelling at me/biting my head off:
When I run "dmidecode -t slot" from Linux to see what my PCI-E slot availability is, I see some slots which read:
Which makes sense to me. Cool, that's a PCI-E slot that supports x16. Got it.
But some of them read:
So is that slot x8? Or x16? What does it mean, exactly, for a type to have both "x8" and "x16" in the description?
For what it's worth, I'm looking to add a GPU which reads in it's manual that it requires "Motherboard Connection PCI Express 3.0 x16".
When I run "dmidecode -t slot" from Linux to see what my PCI-E slot availability is, I see some slots which read:
Code:
Type: x16 PCI Express 3
Which makes sense to me. Cool, that's a PCI-E slot that supports x16. Got it.
But some of them read:
Code:
Type: x8 PCI Express 3 x16
So is that slot x8? Or x16? What does it mean, exactly, for a type to have both "x8" and "x16" in the description?
For what it's worth, I'm looking to add a GPU which reads in it's manual that it requires "Motherboard Connection PCI Express 3.0 x16".