connecting pci-e to a motherboard

[ownage18]

I was just wondering , seeing those many mining PC with many grapchi cards, where do they connect the graphic cards on that motherboard ?

To what kind of slots can you connect a graphic card on a mother board and can be used to mine ? Can you connect to a PCI , PCI-e X1,X2 X4 , X8 , X16 slot ?

Doesn't this affect the MH/s if you put a graphic card that should be on a PCIe X8 / X16 on a X1 slot ? The transfer speed is 8 to 16 times lower .

[coin-helper]

Connecting the graphics card to any pci-e slot is fine.  Using a 1x slot has no impact on mining performance because the transfer speed of a 1x pci-e slot is more than adequate to support the small amount of data transferred to and from the graphics card while mining.

[nthunder]

They are using a PCIe extension cable and it doesn't matter if the GPUs are connected to PCIe X8, X16 or X1. PCIe bandwidth is designed for games and is more then enough for mining.