PCIe 3 vs 4 for Gaming GPUs and SSDs

SO basically if you chose the best of best 1tB Gen 3 NVME for example lets use 100$ it costs

It won't work well but it will work So, what I need is a NVMe x4 passive adapter card, which will plug the into a normal PCIe x1 slot, and

candy star slot Actually, you can install your ssd in the _1 slot and still have your gpu run at x16 as AlderlakeRaptorlake cpu's have 20 pcie lanes or 16 pcie

candy bonanza slot demo A PCIe slot will not bottleneck the card But what CPU are you running? That might be a different story I have a I9-10900KF gig not