What is PCIe and how, exactly, do these components work?

To most of us, PCI Express just means that big old slot where your graphics card sits, but this ingenious interconnect has hidden depths

PCIe slots are expansion slots found on a computer's motherboard They allow additional hardware

pcie 2 slot PCI Express , officially abbreviated as PCIe or PCI-e It is a high-speed serial computer expansion

pcie 4 gpu in pcie 3 slot On the motherboard, PCIe lanes appear in x1, x2, x4, x8, and x16 variations More lanes mean more bandwidth, as well as a longer slot GPUs are usually