[geeks] pci express x8 video card?

[Phil Brutsche]

Lionel Peterson wrote:
> Unrelated to the original poster, it is important to remember that
> there is more involved than physical compatibility between the card
> and the slot - for instance, I had a system I tried to build that had
> a 16x, and I had a 4x SATA RAID card.

Most 16x slots are for graphics cards and *nothing* else.

SLI boards (with the second 16x slot) are reported work with a
non-graphics card in the secondary graphics slot.

Unfortunately you got to spend some $ to get a motherboard that doesn't
suck.

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Phil Brutsche
phil at tux.obix.com