XPS 8700, bottom slot is wired only for PCIe x1, NOT PCIe x4

XPS 8700, bottom slot is wired only for PCIe x1, NOT PCIe x4 x1 pcie slot There are basically three four different types of PCIe slots: x1, x4, x8, and x16 pcie slot i x16 slot Yes, a x1 card should work in a x16 slot It's good that you've got it to work in a x1 slot What else have you tried it in besides the x16 slot

x16 slot Anything A pcie 4 x1 slot is a whole lot of bandwidth and could be used for any pcie card with minimal real world bottleneck GPUs would be

x1 pcie slot x1, x2, x4, x8, x16 PCIe Gen 3 bandwidth, 1 GBs, 2 GBs, 4 GBs, 8 GBs, 16 GBs Does PCIe Gen 4 make PCIe NVMe SSDs faster? PCIe Gen 3 was unable to x1, x2, x4, x8, x16 PCIe Gen 3 bandwidth, 1 GBs, 2 GBs, 4 GBs, 8 GBs, 16 GBs Does PCIe Gen 4 make PCIe NVMe SSDs faster? PCIe Gen 3 was unable to