How many PCI slots do you use, and what do you have in them??

[CraigRT]

in my old system I had all 5 used. but thanks to my new mainboard I have everything built on to it so I dont have to take up a PCI slot.

the only ones I still need are a NIC and my TV card.

 

[Markfw]

Main game : 1 SCSI card
game 2 : 1 NIC (no onboard)
game 3 : none (ECS K7S5A)
game 4 : 1 NIC
son 1 : 2 sound and NIC
work 1 : 1 SCSI
DVD burner/video machine : 4 SCSI,NIC,sound,TV/capture

I voted 1 card as the usual. (except the video machine)

 

[odog]

3 used 5 avail


PCI 1 = unused
PCI 2 = Netgear NIC
PCI 3 = unused
PCI 4 = Leadtek TV2000XPDLX
PCI 5 = Hercules Fortissimo2 digital edition

 

[Electric Amish]

2

Turtle Beach
3COM NIC

amish

 

[mchammer187]

intel NIC
modem
hauppauge win tv radio
SB Audigy

 

[Dulanic]

Nada... Zero... None. I did have a modem... but I moved and now have DSL and the A7N8X Dlx has built in NIC. I used a SB Live! But it died on my so I use the onboard sound.

 

[Wurrmm]

For those who feel 2 slots for a GPU is too much just look at the numbers. Most people use only 1-4 slots.

 

[charlie21]

Wireless NIC
TV Tuner
SCSI card

So 3 over here.

 

[GnomeCop]

Audigy2
Matrox G450 PCI

just 2 out of 5

- TV tuner is on my AIW9700PRo so I saved a slot there. Took out my 3com NIC to use onboard intel NIC so I saved another slot.

 

[EeyoreX]

Main rig current: 2
NIC
Sound Blaster Audigy 1

Main rig after I get around to installing my MSI K7N2 Delta-ILSR: 0

Server Rig: 2
Soundblaster Live 5.1 (Will be Audigy after other upgrade)
NIC
Promise TX2 Ultra 100 (to allow each of my 4 hard drives and 2 CD drives their own IDE channel)

\Dan

 

[Chaotic42]

I have 2 32-bit PCI slots and 3 64-bit PCI slots.

There is one 3Com NIC in one of the 32-bit slots and a TBSC in the other. The 64-bit slots are empty.

 

[BFG10K]

Out of 6 PCI slots I use one for my sound card, one for my modem and one for my NIC if I need to hook up to a LAN.

The fact that a video card takes up two slots doesn't bother me at all.

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: Wurrmm
For those who feel 2 slots for a GPU is too much just look at the numbers. Most people use only 1-4 slots.

For those who only use a few PCI slots, a leaf blower GPU is fine. However, some of us do have all (or most, and plan to fill up all in the near future) PCI slots filled, and/or don't want a leaf blower for a GPU. Got a problem with that?

<-- has 4 out of 6 (sound, network, modem, ide controller) filled, and is looking at tv tuners and scsi cards.

 

[Mitzi]

I use 2 slots both for 10/100 NICs though I do have a number of the blanking plates at the back of the machine taken with with USB2 and Audio ports.

 

[OverVolt]

i use 4: TV Tuner, USB 2.0 card, SB Live5.1, and 10/100NIC

 

[DaFinn]

none... my MSI 845PE MAX2-FISR has it all, onboard Gb LAN, 6ch sound, USB2, Firewire...

Only additional card is my MSI GF4 Ti-4200 VIVO 128Mb.

The brackets for the firewire, usb2 and diagnostic leds take 3 pci slots though!


:beer:

 

[Boogak]

5 slots taken

USB 2.0 Card
Firewire Card
Intel NIC
3Com NIC (for connecting to work VPN)
RAID Card

 

[DanFungus]

Video Card on AGP

Matrox RT2500 Firewire Card
TV Tuner
NIC
PCI slot fan
Extra USB Ports from Motherboard
Extra USB Ports from Motherboard

I have 3 free slots on the motherboard but no free spaces in the case (total of 7, using 7 slots)
If i needed to, i'd get rid of the PCI slot fan, but, for now, it's there

 

[BigFatCow]

im using one for my scsi HD. I use onboard sound and nic on my 8rda+.

 

[snidy1]

Just one for my sound

 

[HitokiriBattousi]

I use 0 of mine. I have no use for them

 

[compudog]

Since I built my A7N8X Dlx rig, I don't use any. If I didn't have a dedicated FAX, I would use 1.

 

[FoBoT]

nic and scsi

 

[dionx]

PCI #1 - not used, available
PCI #2 - not used, available
PCI #3 - not used, unavailable due to bracket for onboard firewire
PCI #4 - not used, available
PCI #5 - used, taken up by 56K modem

using an Asus A7N8X 2.0 deluxe therefore alot of things i use are built-in

 

[BenSkywalker]

0 PCI slot- USB header port(over the AGP slot in my case, eliminates the need to use up an actual PCI slot)
1 PCI- Nothing
2 PCI- Philips Seismic Edge
3 PCI- nothing
4 PCI- Modem
5 PCI- nothing
CNR- Nothing

Need something to take up some space too. At this point, with the Mafia patch to fix the sound issue with NF2 audio, I would likely yank my sound card except my rig would be nearly empty and there really is little difference betwee the SE and the NF2 sound I have(cheap 2 channel offering, not the full SoundStorm).