I think the other poster is... exaggerating his one-time experience to everything.
I personally did "x16-x1 mod", ie removed the plastic from the connector so a x16 video card could be installed in a x1 slot (and free up the x16 slot for a network or RAID card, don't remember atm). Video card worked fine. It's up to PCI-E standard to actually use any amount of lanes available.
I personally did "x16-x1 mod", ie removed the plastic from the connector so a x16 video card could be installed in a x1 slot (and free up the x16 slot for a network or RAID card, don't remember atm). Video card worked fine. It's up to PCI-E standard to actually use any amount of lanes available.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PCIe_J1900_SoC_ITX_Mainbo...