x4 ssd pcie card, only have x16 slot

[eagle101]

pcie ssd x4 card I only have x16 slot on board?
OWC Mercury Accelsior PCIe R0 120GB ssd needs x4 pcie slot....
I have crosshairIV extreme asus board, I only have x16 pcie slots, no x4 0r x8........will it be ok will I loose performance?

thank you

 

[ShintaiDK]

You can plug it into the x16 slot. You can also plug x16 cards into open x1, x4 or x8 slots.

And you wont lose performance by plugging a x4 card into an x8/x16 slot.

 

[eagle101]

You can plug it into the x16 slot. You can also plug x16 cards into open x1, x4 or x8 slots.

And you wont lose performance by plugging a x4 card into an x8/x16 slot.

thank you ShintaiDK, i also called owc tech support and made sure,i was almost ready to get a crosshairV board it has a x4 pcie slot......
that would have been a mess due to the phasechange unit attached to cpu....

ShintaiDK:

when the ssd.pcie gets here today friday im going to plug in, boot up to my other ssd sataIII drive goto disk managment ,storage then do a formatt on my new drive....
then restart with new os and i will do another formatt when i load the os....is this better fresh fresh install.......

 

[groberts101]

no need to format the drive twice. Just let Windows format the drive at install?.. or preformat it in disk mgmt as you mentioned and then install Windows to that newly created partition.

Preformatting first will then forego the 100MB hidden boot partition if you choose to install to that preformatted space and you will then have Windows installed on one large partition.

 

[Emulex]

strange thing dell servers freak out if you move around their raid controllers. not sure why. also some pc's freak out with on-board video if you stick a raid card in there. I hope that is a pcie 2.0 card because 4x is pretty weak. usually folks rock x8 cards even then if you do SSD you might as well use two.