Intensity Pro 4K in PCIe x1 lane at lower bandwidth?

Hey All.

Can someone answer if a IP4K card can be installed in a PCIE x1 lane (instead of the specified x4) and run on lower bandwidth, ie without the 4k features and the like.. ?

I basically will need to get analog in and out of my system, so could use an old Intensity Pro, but they seem to be out of production.. and the few i found in my region were rather expensive compared to the 4K version. I will use two of these cards, one in a 4x lane one in a 1x lane if possible. The two last PCIE x4+ lanes are to be used for two grahics cards.

Best regards.

Lau Lindqvist

It won't physically fit into a 1xslot

Having 2 Graphics cards is over-kill on a editing platform. Can I convince you to remove one? Then this will give you 16 lanes on the PCIe bus to use for your capture cards.

Also, as most Graphics cards do not use their whole bandwidth, you may be able to set your BIOS to change a particular PCIe plug to 8 lanes.

The other mod would be to change the whole of PCIe bus to Version 2.0.

Or combinations of the above to free up lanes (X99 Xeon = 28 to 40) (Skylake = 32) (Ivybridge = 16)

Good luck.