Installing 980 pro into PCIe x8

pcie 8x slot   Dan pciex1 slot

I have an old motherboard which has a x1 PCIe and one x16 PCIe slot I need to split the x16 slot into two half-height x8 slots,

The number of lanes that a PCIe device supports is typically expressed like “x4” for 4 lanes, “x8” for 8 lanes, and so on Does PCIe Gen 4 make PCIe NVMe SSDs There are two components to a PCIe slot: mechanical and electrical For instance, you can have a slot that is x16 mechanical

slot canyon antelope if the slot is open like that, you should be good to go if it's not open, you could a) use another riser to adapt the x8 to x16, or b) The pcie adapter board has a fixed fixing buckle, which can be matched with the graphics card, so that the card will not fall off from the slot This new