PCI Express (x1) cards.....is there any?

kaisersose77 · 16-12-2006 12:50pm #1

Is there anything useful these cards you canb used for in this slot? like a wifi card or more usb slots?

if anyone has any links to places you can get them cheap it would be great.

TerrorFirmer · 16-12-2006 12:54pm

Yeah you can get plenty of things for them. Graphics cards included. TV Tuners, audio cards, network card, etc....not sure where you'd get them though, and they're usually quite expensive compared to their pci counterparts.

kaisersose77 · 16-12-2006 12:57pm

ye after seeing a few on ebay.com and seem a bit of a rip off, cheers for the info

Stephen · 16-12-2006 6:52pm

The vast majority of PCI-Express motherboards still have 2 or 3 PCI slots on them anyway, and I can't see that changing until PCI-Express becomes more dominant than PCI.

Ghost Train · 16-12-2006 8:12pm

It's kind of bad how the motherboard manufacturers are moving towards pci-e and apart from the graphics cards a lot of the hardware manufacturers are sticking with pci.

the_syco · 16-12-2006 8:31pm

PCI Express (x1)... is not a PCI Express (x16), so don't buy a PCI-Express graphics card thinking it'll fit. They're good for adding Firewire ports, tho.

Its usually the small slot farthest away from the CPU [usually, CPU, PCI Express (x16), 4 PCI slots, than a PCI Express (x1) slot].

TerrorFirmer · 16-12-2006 8:36pm

There are pci-e 1x graphics cards though as well....

the_syco · 16-12-2006 9:08pm

HavoK wrote:

There are pci-e 1x graphics cards though as well....

Cool. But you'd be surprised how many calls I get (esp coming up to xmas) by people who just bought/planning to buy a PC, and wondering what graphics card fits into it.

Out of interest (and also to help pimp meh PC), any idea where one would buy said cards?

SeanW · 17-12-2006 2:03am

They're rather rare but I imagine Google, or Froogle might point you in the right direction. If you needed extra Serial ATA controllers, SATA cards are all PCI Ex-1.

I don't get it either about the whole business of putting fewer PCI slots onto boards these days - personally I like being able to add lots of peripherals and the vast majority of them are still PCI.

8T8 · 17-12-2006 11:11am

It's pretty disappointingly the rate of pace it takes for them to change over by the time PCI-e peripherals are common PCI-e v2 will be out (thankfully it's backwards compatible).

There are some SATA controllers in PCI-e x1 form along with some high end SATA RAID card in PCI-e x4 as well.

Abit recently announced a PCI-e x1 WiFi card.

Firewire and USB cards can be gotten mostly in the US it seems like one of these also some Mac specialist stores as well.

Still slim pickings at the moment though.

PCI Express (x1) cards.....is there any?

Comments