PCIe slot shenanigans

Can I use a 1x PCIe slot? pcie 1 slot I recently got an LSI 2308, and have not had a chance to test it yet My motherboard only has one PCIE x16 slot , pcie 20 x16 slot The Riser from Dell™ fits into the PCI-E slot of your Dell System Riser cards are used to extend a slot for a chip or card in a fully loaded computer

pcie slot length PCIe slots come in different physical configurations: x1, x4, x8, x16, x32 The number after the x tells you how many lanes (how data travels to