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ASUS smoking hashes with 19-GPU, 24,000-core motherboard

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PCIe x16

There is a difference between the physical connectors and the number of PCIe lanes a component uses when plugged into any PCIe slot (though an x1 slot can only use 1 lane - and x16 slot can use up to 16 lanes)

Nice pic of connectors and max bandwidth here https://i.stack.imgur.com/AMn2Z.gif

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