On 03/ 6/10 08:27 AM, Simon Breden wrote: > Well, I checked the prices available so far... > > The NVidia Quadro NVS 290 PCIe x1 cards are around $150 !!! > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133211&cm_re=nvs_290-_-14-133-211-_-Product > > And for the Geforce 210 PCIe x1 cards, like the GT218, as you said, it seems > none are shipping currently, but will soon. I hope the price is less than the > NVS 290. See here: > http://www.geeks3d.com/20100214/albatron-geforce-210-pci-express-x1/ > The grey market GeForce 8400 GS PCI boards were cheaper and available now.
Quadro is the supported product line. > One thing I noticed is that the GT218 (albatron) seems to be a PCIe 2.0 1x > card. > I'm not 100% certain but I think my PCIe is probably a version prior to > version 2.0, so version 1.0 ? Will that give a problem, or are PCIe versions > 1.0 and 2.0 compatible? > > Link retraining will negotiate down to the lowest common speed. The PCI-E 2.0 advantage is double the bidirectional performance as it is only a single link. Probably a wise investment if you ever decide to upgrade to a motherboard with similar slot layout that supports PCI-E 2.0.
