PCIe Expansion card and Bifurcation

PCIe Expansion card and Bifurcation can you put pcie 4x in 16x slot I switched my 3070 to x16 slot today, i didnt know that the second pcie slot was only x4 can you put a pcie x4 in a x16 slot why its not doing it in the x4 slot is the card will be pulling less power as its basically bottlenecked by only getting 14 the data sent to it

can you put a pcie x4 in a x16 slot 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

candy jackpot slot machine PCIe buses can support 1x, 4x, 8x, and 16x lanes PCIe has an effective transfer speed of up to 985 MBs per lane which means there is a potential It should work just fine The port should automatically drop down to x4 You may need to get a smaller plate though