PCIe Bifurcation

A x1 electrical card in any compliant PCIe slot will always run in x1 electrical mode That is, a device designed for Gen-3 PCI Express functions at Gen-2

The PCIe slot has been the most reliable way to connect video, audio, storage, and network cards However, the cards have upgraded with time for better

pcie slot length Bifurcation is needed to run multiple pcie devices on the same slot For example using a pcie x16 slot to hold 4 nvme drives This article

pcie slot configuration gen1 gen2 gen3 PCI Express was introduced in 2002 as Third Generation IO , and by the mid-2000s, motherboards had at least one PCIe slot for graphics PCIe