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Emily Spankratchet
Minmatar
Pragmatics
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Posted - 2007.03.14 13:21:00 -
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Edited by: Emily Spankratchet on 14/03/2007 13:27:50
My motherboard has three PCI-express x1 slots (the little stubby ones). They serve absolutely no useful purpose. Even worse, they force me to stick my elderly PCI soundblaster card next to the hulking great monster that is my X1900XT, and somehow it picks up a whining noise that is interference from the fan motor on the heatsink.
Are there any useful things that you can stick into a PCI-E x1 slot? More to the point, are there any decent sound cards? I've been a-googling, but I can't find anything I'd want to buy.
EDIT: Hmm, it appears that Creative demonstrated an Audigy with a PCI-E x1 at CES 2007 in January. I'm obviously being a bit optimistic here.
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l3VGV
Rage and Terror
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Posted - 2007.03.14 13:36:00 -
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http://catalog.belkin.com/
some usb/fire wire/sata adapters.
http://plusd.itmedia.co.jp/pcuser/articles/0612/12/news056.html
sound card 
but its true. except ur GPU noone else realy need the PCI-E.
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Miss Anthropy
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Posted - 2007.03.14 15:11:00 -
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 Originally by: Emily Spankratchet
Edited by: Emily Spankratchet on 14/03/2007 13:27:50
My motherboard has three PCI-express x1 slots (the little stubby ones). They serve absolutely no useful purpose. Even worse, they force me to stick my elderly PCI soundblaster card next to the hulking great monster that is my X1900XT, and somehow it picks up a whining noise that is interference from the fan motor on the heatsink.
Are there any useful things that you can stick into a PCI-E x1 slot? More to the point, are there any decent sound cards? I've been a-googling, but I can't find anything I'd want to buy.
EDIT: Hmm, it appears that Creative demonstrated an Audigy with a PCI-E x1 at CES 2007 in January. I'm obviously being a bit optimistic here.
Can I have your stuff?
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Originally by: roadrage639
Are marcominers allowed or something?
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Grimpak
Gallente
Twisted Attitude
Apocalyptica.
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Posted - 2007.03.14 15:22:00 -
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I once saw a x1300-based card running in a pci-e x1 slot, wich is kinda interesting and understandable since x1300's in x16 slots is like fitting an old WV beetle (the 1960 ones) engine in a porshe carrera 4 frame.
but yes, you are right. ATM pci-e x1 slots are not that used, altho I can see them being more usefull than the ol' AMR slot that some mobos had.
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Originally by: Tiuwaz
for caldari perception weapons that hit up to 100km are short range weapons 
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Miss Anthropy
School of Applied Knowledge
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Posted - 2007.03.14 15:39:00 -
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Anyone remember those old ISO slots? Big chucky black slots on the motherboards about 10-15 years ago? Nobody used them. Even when PCI cards came out manufacturers still refused to get rid of the ISO slots.
I remember about 9 years ago I bought a load of computer parts to build my own computer and the motherboard had 3 PCI's, 1 AGP, and 3 ISO slots. Those PCI-E slots Emily was on about might well turn out to be the same; ignored by the masses as was the ISO slots (which were far less advanced than PCI).
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alesta
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Posted - 2007.03.14 15:58:00 -
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pci x1 is slowly replacing regular pci....theres already a good number of nic card, tv tuners and toher reglar pci cards now using pci x1 format.....
just be glad ur mobo isnt like mine.... 3x pci-e x16(why 3 lol only need 2) 1x pcie x1 and 2x pci
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Benco97
Gallente
Multiverse Corporation
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Posted - 2007.03.14 16:15:00 -
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Originally by: Miss Anthropy
Anyone remember those old ISO slots? Big chucky black slots on the motherboards about 10-15 years ago? Nobody used them. Even when PCI cards came out manufacturers still refused to get rid of the ISO slots.
I remember about 9 years ago I bought a load of computer parts to build my own computer and the motherboard had 3 PCI's, 1 AGP, and 3 ISO slots. Those PCI-E slots Emily was on about might well turn out to be the same; ignored by the masses as was the ISO slots (which were far less advanced than PCI).
I remember those ^^
I had this awesome expansion card that went into TWO ISO slots and gave me like 4 extra PCI slots to use... considering the irq restrictions that the computer I had back then had.. well.. it wasn't the most useful thing in the world really, pretty cool though.
I miss the old days of computing.
"MY GOD KEEP THIS AWAY FROM BENCO97!!!!!" - Constantine Arcanum |
Grimpak
Gallente
Twisted Attitude
Apocalyptica.
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Posted - 2007.03.14 17:06:00 -
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Originally by: Miss Anthropy
Anyone remember those old ISO slots? Big chucky black slots on the motherboards about 10-15 years ago? Nobody used them. Even when PCI cards came out manufacturers still refused to get rid of the ISO slots.
I remember about 9 years ago I bought a load of computer parts to build my own computer and the motherboard had 3 PCI's, 1 AGP, and 3 ISO slots. Those PCI-E slots Emily was on about might well turn out to be the same; ignored by the masses as was the ISO slots (which were far less advanced than PCI).
ISO?
you mean ISA slots right?
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Originally by: Tiuwaz
for caldari perception weapons that hit up to 100km are short range weapons
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Benco97
Gallente
Multiverse Corporation
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Posted - 2007.03.14 18:26:00 -
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Originally by: Grimpak
ISO?
you mean ISA slots right?
I got confuzzled in my post too ;.;
I bring computer shame on my family 
"MY GOD KEEP THIS AWAY FROM BENCO97!!!!!" - Constantine Arcanum |
Shalia Ripper
Caldari
Caldari Provisions
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Posted - 2007.03.14 19:46:00 -
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Originally by: Grimpak
I once saw a x1300-based card running in a pci-e x1 slot, wich is kinda interesting and understandable since x1300's in x16 slots is like fitting an old WV beetle (the 1960 ones) engine in a porshe carrera 4 frame.
but yes, you are right. ATM pci-e x1 slots are not that used, altho I can see them being more usefull than the ol' AMR slot that some mobos had.
I was going to mention AMR as well.
I hope I don't buy any PCI-E 1x stuff. I really don't want to cram anything in between the two 7900GS that I have. The DFI NF590 MTR/G is a good board, but they should have put the non-16x PCI-E slots somewhere else rather than between the 16x slots.
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Emily Spankratchet
Minmatar
Pragmatics
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Posted - 2007.03.14 19:59:00 -
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Originally by: Miss Anthropy
Anyone remember those old ISO slots?
At work I have a piece of kit that runs off an ISA interface card. It's getting harder and harder to support the damn thing.
And no, you can't have my stuff 
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Miss Anthropy
School of Applied Knowledge
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Posted - 2007.03.15 00:45:00 -
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Originally by: Benco97
Originally by: Grimpak
ISO?
you mean ISA slots right?
I got confuzzled in my post too ;.;
I bring computer shame on my family
I had a nagging feeling about that. Thanks for pointing that out. I'm trying to remember what ISA stands for now. I remember years ago I saw an old ISA Sound Blaster. Huge thing it was.
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Multras
Caldari
D00M.
Triumvirate.
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Posted - 2007.03.15 09:56:00 -
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My tv tuner card uses a x1 slot.
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Grimpak
Gallente
Twisted Attitude
Apocalyptica.
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Posted - 2007.03.15 11:29:00 -
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Originally by: Miss Anthropy
Originally by: Benco97
Originally by: Grimpak
ISO?
you mean ISA slots right?
I got confuzzled in my post too ;.;
I bring computer shame on my family
I had a nagging feeling about that. Thanks for pointing that out. I'm trying to remember what ISA stands for now. I remember years ago I saw an old ISA Sound Blaster. Huge thing it was.
I still remember the gigantic soundblaster pro cards with ram slots so that you could slap soundfont banks to the card without using system ram
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Originally by: Tiuwaz
for caldari perception weapons that hit up to 100km are short range weapons
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Wildy Trex
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Posted - 2007.03.15 14:26:00 -
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I remember these 'vesa local bus' slots, they were HUGE and looked a lot like very, very long PCI slots. I was about 6 when I first saw them though >_<
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Spei Prodetor
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Posted - 2007.03.15 15:14:00 -
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Originally by: Grimpak
I once saw a x1300-based card running in a pci-e x1 slot, wich is kinda interesting and understandable since x1300's in x16 slots is like fitting an old WV beetle (the 1960 ones) engine in a porshe carrera 4 frame.
but yes, you are right. ATM pci-e x1 slots are not that used, altho I can see them being more usefull than the ol' AMR slot that some mobos had.
U think pci-e x1 and AMR are useless i once had a mobo with an ARP slot ... the only thing i ever found taht would fit in it was a 56k modem lol
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