27 Aug
2013
27 Aug
'13
3:17 a.m.
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 12:39:40PM +1000, Jason White wrote:
There's one free PCI-Express slot left, specified as "x8 mechanical/x4 electrical", which I understand will take any lower (e.g., x2) card.
yep, that's correct. given that it's physically x8, you could even plug in an 8x card (but bandwidth would be limited to 4x) - in fact, it's even possible to carefully cut the end off the slot so that a 16x card will fit, and it would still work (again, at 4x speed) some motherboards with 1x/2x/4x/8x physical slots even have open ends on the slot so that larger cards can fit - i recall seeing a photo of one a few years ago and thinking "(almost) useless, but cool" :) craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>