When you have ONLY PCIe slots

You have to use cards that are compatible with the motherboard slots.

Hency my Inq.

Since I have only PCIe x 16 type slots on the board, so I am trying to learn what all will, via hardware-adapter, or by functioning in such a slot though not filling its entire length, give me some other cards besides GPU cards, (like my GTX 460).

Bruce

in theory you can put pci-e x1 , x4 , x8 and x16 in the x16 slot even if it doesnt fill the entire length--no adaptor needed

I just learned of that today. On a similar note, I have an adapter that lets me mount a GPU card in a PCIe x1 slot.

Ah, yes. But have any card manufacturers of devices that have previously been on PCI2 or whatever found any advantage to using the bigger slots? Obviously pin assignments would change, but the bandwidth per each lane is doubled.

The board I'm running right now only has one PCIe x16, and most folks have other slots, and thus don't have the same problem I do with the SR2A1, but the increased bandwidth might provide a marketable product differentiation, and I'm now searching for any cards so designed.

Thanks for the replies, guys. It's nice to find an active forum, with help on the way, so to speak.

I don't think there is a way to convery between PCi and PCI-E, as the logic is very different not just teh pin assignements.

Try this for pci to pci-e x1

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

or pci-e x16 to pci-e x1
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

or pci-e x16 to pci-e x4
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

or pci-e x1 to pci
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

of course all of these would require a low profile card to begin with, to fit in a stardard case.

Beginning to think you are right, haven't seen anything yet.

Bruce

That second one is the one I have, came with a GPU I bought, but never used it. LP only!

Bruce

The first one will do it for you, part fill a pci-ex16 slot with a pci-ex1 card, and you'll get a pci slot out of it, the orientation will not change but you'll have to jury rig a holding mechanism, but it should work.