I am picking up a 1u chassis to play with and I have to mount the quad nic card by using a PCI-E extension. I have a few 1x to 16x powered riser laying around and wanted to know if I could us it and not suffer any performance issues. My board is an Intel DH61DL which has a 1x PCI-E slot.
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