PCIe or PCI Express is a high-speed serial computer bus that offers higher speeds and a lower pin count than earlier standards such as PCI that it is designed to replace. Questions should relate to PCIe design issues not general consumer PC / peripheral issues.
PCI Express (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) is a high-speed serial computer expansion bus standard, designed to replace the older PCI, PCI-X and AGP bus standards. PCIe has numerous improvements over the older standards, including higher maximum system bus throughput, lower I/O pin count and smaller physical footprint, better performance scaling for bus devices, a more detailed error detection and reporting mechanism (Advanced Error Reporting, AER[2]), and native hot-swap functionality.
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