> We're already seeing workarounds - graphics cards are using two, or even three PCI-E slots to get that precious bandwidth they need. With 4k displays on the horizon, and textures in games being updated accordingly, we're going to need more bandwidth to graphics cards. At some point, we're either going to have to switch to two dimensional connectors like processors are using for GPUs (which will still only delay our issues), or we're going to have to move away from the 1mm build fabrication for our interconnects. If the later happens, we simply can't rely on consumers to properly line up lanes in components.

They aren't actually using the slot, just potentially covering a slot right? One of the fastest desktop cards out, r290x only uses one PCI-E slot.