[pyr0m1]

What purpose does the PCIEx x1 slot serve if you only have PCI and PCIEx x16 cards?

Why can't I get a MoBo with 2 PCIEx x16 and 5 PCI?

And finally, what cards other than video cards come in PCIEx x1 format?

This has boggled my mind for a while now, and I think I'm going crazy...

Thanks

 

[Some_Idiot2]

No such thing as a PCI-E 1x video card, I'm pretty sure that is.
SATA 2 cardsa are PCI-E 1x, and so will be the AGEIA PHYSX card. Same goes for the solid state DDR drive.

 

[tweako_420]

NIC cards basically.
Pretty much what you use PCI for.
LoL
There is a mobo with 2 PCI-E x16.

EDIT: Ya I was gonna say that Ive never heard of a pci-e 1x video card!

 

[Rpg_pro]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Some_Idiot2 and so will be the AGEIA PHYSX card.

Hmm i read somewhere "PHYSX cards" are going no where, because of dual cores (and up coming quad cores) they are not needed anymore.

I think theres ment to be high end sound cards coming out in pcie, and Sata/scsi raid cards.

 

[tweako_420]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rpg_pro Hmm i read somewhere "PHYSX cards" are going no where, because of dual cores (and up coming quad cores) they are not needed anymore.

 

[Marshall82]

What about the 4x slot?

 

[pyr0m1]

ah

thanks

 

[Drewgy]

is this PHYSX card you're talking about a ppu?

 

[danm]

Quote:

Originally Posted by HORSEtheusername is this PHYSX card you're talking about a ppu?

thats what i was thinking aswell....

 

[iker0]

http://www.matrox.com/mga/workstatio.../g550_pcie.cfm
Matrox make Two PCIe 1x gfx cards.

 

[Cheetos316]

Not to hijack.... but what is a ppu?

 

[Marshall82]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cheetos316 Not to hijack.... but what is a ppu?

physics processing unit

 

[Cheetos316]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Marshall82 physics processing unit

Can anyone elaborate a bit more about what it's for?

 

[claymanhb]

It takes the load of physics off of the cpu. The same way graphics cards took the load off the cpu back in the early days of gpu's, and still do.

 

[Cheetos316]

But isn't physics just a lot of mathematical equations? Wouldn't this be done under the ALU? What applications require the computer to do loads of physics?