PCI-Express Add-On Cards... Where are they?!

gvblake22 · Jul 6, 2005

Yeah, so I thought maybe I would price out some PCI-Express sound cards or Ethernet cards or USB/FireWire cards and they seem to be non-existant! We are going on our third generation of PCI-Express video cards and there are already numerious PCI-Express chipsets available, where is the support for PCI-Express from the rest of the manufacturers?!?!?! :bang head

dicecca112 · Jul 6, 2005

well I know of a PCI-E TV Tuner card based on the ATI Theatre 550pro chipset. It should be out in the next couple months.

nealric · Jul 6, 2005

Most devices dont benifit from pci-e, thats probably why.

NsOmNiA91130 · Jul 6, 2005

Yeah, the only thing I can think of would be 10000/1000/100/10 ethernet and TV Tuners. And 10000 doesn't even exist.

Yuriman · Jul 7, 2005

I'd like to see these hitting the market too, but I'd say that probably more than 98% of buyers don't have pci-express yet. We will likely see a lot more of this next year, I think.

subtotal · Jul 7, 2005

NsOmNiA91130 said:
Yeah, the only thing I can think of would be 10000/1000/100/10 ethernet and TV Tuners. And 10000 doesn't even exist.

10,000 is pointless, it's 1.25GB/s most RAID setups aren't that fast...

TombKeeper · Jul 7, 2005

Intel has some network cards made for pci-x....

cullam3n · Jul 7, 2005

PCI-X and PCI-E aren't the same things... correct me if I'm wrong, but PCI-X are 64bit (instead of 32bit) PCI slots, recognizable by their longer nature... but I do think you can fit regular PCI cards in a PCI-X slot.

hyperasus · Jul 7, 2005

A PCI-E TV Tuner card :drool:

......I would be all over that.

gvblake22 · Jul 7, 2005

Cullam3n said:
PCI-X and PCI-E aren't the same things... correct me if I'm wrong, but PCI-X are 64bit (instead of 32bit) PCI slots, recognizable by their longer nature... but I do think you can fit regular PCI cards in a PCI-X slot.

I'm pretty sure PCI-X, PCI-Express, and PCI are all completely different animals, none of which are compatable with eachother.

Vulcan · Jul 7, 2005

Wasn't soundstorm suposed to become a PCI-E soundcard at some point?

cullam3n · Jul 7, 2005

gvblake22 said:
I'm pretty sure PCI-X, PCI-Express, and PCI are all completely different animals, none of which are compatable with eachother.

AFAIK regular PCI cards will fit in PCI-X slots.

lowfat · Jul 7, 2005

Cullam3n said:
AFAIK regular PCI cards will fit in PCI-X slots.

yes and a lot of pci-x cards will run on PCI slots, just @ 33MHz vs 66MHz

SolidxSnake · Jul 7, 2005

Cullam3n said:
AFAIK regular PCI cards will fit in PCI-X slots.

Correct.

PCI-E doesn't have much support yet, and anyway, what's it matter? Most PCI-E boards have PCI-Slots anywho.

TombKeeper · Jul 7, 2005

Cullam3n said:
PCI-X and PCI-E aren't the same things... correct me if I'm wrong, but PCI-X are 64bit (instead of 32bit) PCI slots, recognizable by their longer nature... but I do think you can fit regular PCI cards in a PCI-X slot.

Yes, I realized that after i wrote my post, but wasn't able to fix at the time....

PCI-x, pcie, and pci are all different... pci-x will fit in pci slots but as mentioned at the lower speeds.

dicecca112 · Jul 7, 2005

AFAIK regular PCI cards will fit in PCI-X slots.

Some will. PCI will work in PCI-X but not vice-versa

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