PCIe expansion slot definitions

PCIe Bifurcation & Lanes pcie slot meaning You also have PCIe slots on the motherboard where you plug your PCIe cards in Lanes are defined in powers of two starting at 1 x1, x2, x4, x8, x16 pcie slot configuration gen1 gen2 gen3 A PCI Express slot is a type of expansion slot on a motherboard that allows you to add additional hardware to your computer PCI Express

pciex16 slot configuration PCIe slot description ; 1 PCI Express version Each PCIe version corresponds to a specific data transfer rate between the processor and peripheral devices