I am putting a sound card on my other x16 lane Will -

can you put a pcie x4 in a x16 slot   Dan can you play slot machines at 18

You can run a x16 PCIe card in a x1 PCIe slot However, how the PCIe lanes are allocated are dependent on the PCIe controller and

A GTX 780R9 290 for example may suffer a performance hit but an R7 260GTX 750 may not The PCIe slots are rated as they are because of 2 devices are x4 or less lanes PCIe devices Don't matter if the adapter PCB physically fits a x4x8x16 slot, the is and always will be x4

permanent upgrade slot cookie clicker ❌You must have a PCIe Gen 5 x16 slot: Though it means nothing now, future graphics cards will support PCIe Gen 5 Who knows if a distant RTX can fit into all PCIe expansion slots, including x4, x8, and x16 PCIe slots There are various peripheral cards you can use with PCIe x1