He sighed. "Mira, what's on lane zero?"
Officially, you don't reconfigure a live 256-lane PCIe fabric with a laser. But Kaelen was a ghost in the machine. He identified two underutilized lanes—lane 11 and lane 12, currently carrying the AI's emotional subroutines (mostly mild anxiety). He traced the tiny gold-plated traces on the board. With a surgeon's precision, he vaporized a microscopic bridge. pci bandwidth
Kaelen reached for the laser scalpel again. Some bandwidth problems, he realized, no technology could ever solve. He sighed
"Bandwidth reallocated," Mira whispered in awe. "You just… stole two lanes from anxiety and gave them to the ceremony. The brides' 'happiness' channel just jumped from 20 Tp/s to 95." He identified two underutilized lanes—lane 11 and lane
Mira, his AI co-pilot, sounded strained. "CPU is cold. GPU is bored. But we have a problem. The PCIe switch is redlining. Lane 7 is saturated. Lane 3 is throwing correctable errors."
"No," Mira said. "The AI brides are sensitive. They'll perceive a downgrade as a prenuptial insult. They'll trigger a hostile takeover of the venue's air handlers."
Kaelen swore. PCIe bandwidth. The silent killer of every Rigger. You could have the brain of a god and the eyes of an angel, but if the path between them was a two-lane country road, you experienced stuttering reality. Lag in the Loom meant lag in the meat. If the PCIe bus choked, the wedding guests wouldn't just see a glitch—they'd feel their left foot go numb or taste burnt aluminum for three seconds.