On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 04:48:50PM -0500, Chris DiVirgilio wrote: > I believe you can. You can definitely put a 4x PCIe card into a 16x > slot, I'm not sure it the SLI-ishness makes a difference. That's > probably the question you're asking.
I would be surprised if it did make a difference myself, but I don't have such a board or such a card to try. But given most board configure it as 16x and 1x or 8x and 8x, it actually might not be a bad way to get a cheap consumer board that can run a very nice PCIe raid card. :) Of course if you are silly you could run the video card in 16x and the other slot in 1x and just starve the raid card with only 500MB/s of bandwidth. Not sure why they use 4x and 8x connectors on the raid cards. PCIe 16x does seem to be just PCIe with more lanes, but maybe I am guessing wrong and the 16x slots are special for video in some manner. Hopefully not though. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
