Theres not a “hardware” section to post, so I guess I will try here. I replaced my Ryzen 3 2200g (integrated graphics) with a Ryzen 7 1700. Since the 1700 didn’t have integrated graphics, I bought a cheap graphics card to throw in. I put it in my only available x16 pcie slot.
I am wanting to put another NVME in that slot, and want to know if I could buy an x8 to x1 adapter and put my graphics card on there instead? Would the graphics card run off of x1? The graphics card is Nvidia GT 730 2GB DDR3, and only uses x8, but it occupies my x16.
In general, yes it should run on a X1 slot, if it can fit as some x1 slots are open ended to allow bigger cards to fit.
But check around to get some second opinion, because I never tried myself
If this is a dedicated plotter/harvester then you could run it headless and access it remotely from another machine, then you won’t need to bother with graphics at all.
This is a good question… I also resent that I have to buy a video card and put it in my 5950x systems, thus occupying the single 16x slot … so converting to PCI x1 is an interesting solution! Thanks for bringing it up!