[Q] Dual Gigabit PCIe x4 card on PCIe x1 slot?

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So the LAN card is HP NC360T (based on intel 82571EB) it is PCIe (v1.0) x4,
the motherboard has only one PCIe (v2.0) x1 slot, in theory I should be able to get Gigabit speeds right? What about practice?

I plan to use this in my pfsense router build, I only need one Gigabit connection for Home LAN, the other one will be for Wi-Fi AP and I don’t need Gigabit on that :slight_smile:

Thanks in advance :slight_smile:

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PCIe1 x1 does provide enough bandwidth, so in theory it should work.
And that HP card is a rebranded Intel NIC. Try it. There is a good chance.

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