Here’s an archive link, in case anyone, like me, refuses to read anything on Substack due to their affinity for Nazis:

https://archive.ph/Qh4gw

As the owner of a (non-piracy-related) .to domain for decades, I concur.

This is false when it comes to me to PCIe, as mentioned elsewhere in this thread.

Most motherboards have cutouts on one end of the PCIe x1/x4 slots, for exactly this situation. If not, and you want to be adventurous, you can cut the plastic of the slot and it’ll work fine.

If the card is PCIe 3.0 x4, and the slot is PCIe 4.0 x1, the card will run at PCIe 3.0 x1. But it’ll work.