Graphics card for PCIe x1 or conventional PCI

TheBoyConor · 06-12-2019 11:04am #1

Does anyone know if there is some kind of graphics card available that has a displayport connections and will fit into a PCIe x1 slot or a conventional PCI slot?

I have my SSD in the x16 slot and all I have free is 2x PICe x1 slots and a conventional PCI slot.

TheBoyConor · 11-12-2019 10:57pm

https://www.ebay.ie/itm/PNY-VCQ295NVS-X1-nVidia-Quadro-NVS-295-256MB-GDDR3-PCIe-x1-Graphics-Card-2xDP/362556290574?hash=item546a09f60e:g:Jl4AAOSwmThcY9l7

https://www.ebay.ie/sch/i.html?_odkw=%22pcie+x1%22+graphics+card&_osacat=27386&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR1.TRC0.A0.H0.X%22pcie%22+%22x1%22+graphics+card.TRS0&_nkw=%22pcie%22+%22x1%22+graphics+card&_sacat=27386

^^

What would people reckon of either of the above?
Both are PICe x1 with dual displayport sockets.

Being PCIe x1, I would imagine that the performance of them would be much less than a x4 or x16 card, right? What level of performance would I be looking at here?

What would be my options for a conventional PCI card? These seem very scarce....

My reason for adding this is to my PC is just to be able to make use of my displayport monitor as well as my normal VGA CRT monitor. Just browsing, documents etc. Not doing any gaming or big 3D modelling or anything like that.

Running a graphics card, can I run monitors through that while still running my VGA monitor through the on-board graphics adapter? Or does it have to be either one or the other.?

beauf · 14-12-2019 2:46am

I'd stick with Nvidia you'll always get drivers for it. Some of those other cards are ancient and might not have a Win10 driver.

Depends on the Bios. Usually a card disables the onboard output.

Some of those cards come with splitters to get 3 connections.

Graphics card for PCIe x1 or conventional PCI

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