Ok, I have searched around on this and for some reason I still can't figure it out. My question: What goes in a PCI Express x1 slot? I've read all the tech jargon on this till it's coming out my ears .... all I want to know is what type of cards can go in these slots? They seem like a waste of space to me, but I figured since my board has three I'd find out what can go in there.

Thanks.

sound card, debug card. network card, turner card, GPIB card video card.......

Like Bob said. Slow devices and slow video cards.
From what little I know, the PCIe x1 is MUCH faster than the old PCI slots and maybe faster than the AGP 4x.

its not faster than agp x4

I have an eSATA RAID card in my 1X slot.

Shove your fingure in there, thats one use.

Pretty much everything that was available for PCI is making the move to PCIe, just have a look over some hardware retail sites, especially the I/O controller section.

AGP 4x is 1066MB/s

A single PCIe 1.1 lane is capable of 250MB/s (less overhead for transmission protocols), so a x16 slot can do ~4GB/s PCIe 2.0 doubles this, and the upcoming 3.0 doubles it again. Servers have x32 slots, so that's going to be 32GB/s. Imagine what SLI with those could look like.

It's also a handy place to keep spare change

Until the coins short the power pins and then its burn baby burn

the cards would have to super powerful to take advantage of it

Thanks, polarity. That was the help I was looking for

There are plenty of product photos at:

www.cooldrives.com

-and-

www.addonics.com


e.g. Network Interface Cards; eSATA adapters;
2-channel SATA/3G RAID controllers, etc.


Sincerely yours,
/s/ Paul Andrew Mitchell
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