> if you are going to use an m.2 to PCIe adapter might as well dump the middle man and just plug in a PCIe GPU straight into the x4 slot since that would work j

> if you are going to use an m.2 to PCIe adapter might as well dump the middle man and just plug in a PCIe GPU straight into the x4 slot since that would work just fine. I did say that and even linked a video of someone trying to do just that (The part about using the M.2 port is about 5 mins into the video). > And if you have a M.2 port with PCIe then might as well just hook the GPU directly to the M.2 <-> PCIe adaptor[1]). Either way you would be limited to 4 PCIe lanes. It does depend on what bios settings you are running and if you bios allows you to change those settings to get the card seen by the laptop. Linus (from LTT not Linux) wasn't able to get it to work, but then again it is Linus and his projects often don't go to plan.