Nvidia RTX 3080: PCIe vs scaling analysis

GPU's with waterblocks are even narrower, generally a bit more than 1 PCIe slot wide You have three options for a 4 GPU rig, blower style GPU's

It is a PCIe x 16 card A modern 12th generation motherboard will support PCIe x 16 Can he plug the PCIe x 16 graphics card into

pcie 1 slot It should be backward compatible, but you will see less performance than if you had it in a PCIe slot since it runs at PCIe x8 instead

pcie x32 slot Buy ADT-Link Key M NVMe External Graphics Card Stand Bracket with x4 Riser Cable 25cm 50cm 32Gbs for ITX STX NUC VEGA64 GTX1080ti