What goes in a PCI Express x1 slot?

[dcinmich]

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.

 

[bob8701]

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

 

[enewmen]

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.

 

[imrul]

its not faster than agp x4

 

[snarfies1]

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

 

[uk_gangsta]

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.

Shove your fingure in there, thats one use.

 

[polarity]

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.

 

[polarity]

Shove your fingure in there, thats one use.

It's also a handy place to keep spare change

 

[chookman]

It's also a handy place to keep spare change

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

 

[imrul]

Servers have x32 slots, so that's going to be 32GB/s. Imagine what SLI with those could look like.

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

 

[dcinmich]

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.

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

 

[bambam0099]

Shove your fingure in there, thats one use.

fingure? What's a fingure? gangsta? What's a gangsta? Oh wait, I forgot...my little 5 year old daughter plays gangsta once in awhile.

Try replying with a meaningful response and while you're at it, try using the spell checker gangsta boy.

 

[randomizer]

Try replying to threads that are current instead of signing up just so you can post a meaningless response to a person who is never going to read your post.