[Lickity]

Greetings earthlings
so i built the system for my dad

x2 CPU
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819117083
x1 MOBO
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131027
x2 RAM
http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16820161044
x1 PSU
http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16817701005

hooked up an old ide drive for the main and a sata for secondary cause i havent done the whole raid or whatever driver thingy yet. drilled holes in an old case to mount the HS's

i didnt have to reinstall vista when i put the second CPU in a few days later when it came so that was cool

i need to figure out a list of compatable PCI-E x16 Video cards that also do the x8 link for it.

im looking at these cards here
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814133117
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814133178
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814195011

its for massive rendering with vue6, lightwave, mojoworld, ect,

not for gaming but i was looking at these aswell
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130066
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814150189

are any of those compatable with that board?

 

[bdattilo]

All those cards will be compatible. The x8 slots are physical x16 slots, and a x16 card will just run at x8 in those slots.

 

[Lickity]

its a x16 slot with a x8 bus
but it does have a x8 slot aswell
so your saying that a good pci-e quadro will fit in that x8 slot?

btw thanks for the info

 

[bdattilo]

Yes, that will work. Before the nForce 590, and nForce 4 X32 chipsets, SLI systems divided the x16 between two buses, so my cards both run PCI-e x8, and they work.

 

[Lickity]

hrm well i got this card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814133117

and i put it in and it didnt work.. =( not holding anything against you

i was just reading this review here on newegg about it and the guy says also his x16 card doesnt work..

anyone have this board and a x16 card for it? the asus board is down right now but im trying to find something that works thats for rendering animations and cad programs

 

[Lickity]

still looking for a card guys, need some advice and info.

is PCI-E x1 faster than regular PCI ?

and this card here which is a NVS 285
http://www.bestselectionsunlimited.com/k17879.html
or
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814133183

will those run at x8 speed or do they just run at x1 speed in a x8 or x16 slot?
and will that out perform my current ATI-9250 PCI card

or where can i find a PCI-E x8 workstation video card

this will be running 2 monitors

PLEASE this dual woodcrest xeon beast needs a good vid card!!!

 

[bdattilo]

Which card did you get? If you got a PCI card, you will have to change in the BIOS that you want to look for video on the PCI slot, not PCI-Express.

 

[briank]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lickity is PCI-E x1 faster than regular PCI ?

Each lane of a PCIe connection has 250MB/s bandwidth. A PCI 2.1 slot has 133MB/S. So yes, PCIe 1x has much more bandwidth than regular PCI.

 

[Lickity]

Quote:

Each lane of a PCIe connection has 250MB/s bandwidth. A PCI 2.1 slot has 133MB/S. So yes, PCIe 1x has much more bandwidth than regular PCI.

Thank you

Quote:

Which card did you get? If you got a PCI card, you will have to change in the BIOS that you want to look for video on the PCI slot, not PCI-Express.

well actualy its the other way around, i have a PCI card in there now and i put the PCI-Ex16 card in and got no video.... But im gathering now i should have done something in the bios to get video from the card.....?
I thought it just plain wouldnt work because it was x8 bus speed in the slot
but now im thinking i shouldnt have sent that card back so quickly...

so can someone explain a bit more how this bios proceedure goes?
load into bios
find video settings
find pci-e somewhere
enable
turn off pooter
switch monitor from onboard to pci-e card
turn on pooter
cross fingers
?