What can the PCI-e x1 slot be used for?

[wantonsoup]

Just got a Dell E310 with a PCI Express x1 slot. What is made for this slot?

 

[ubercaffeinated]

i think sound cards ...

 

[imported_taku]

good question. but i have no answer. i would hope that vendors will bring out a ulstra 320 scsi card for the high speed hard drives.

 

[Peter]

SCSI cards are there already, and they're 4x PCIE.

1x slots will be good for low-bandwidth I/O - TV cards, ethernet, that kind of stuff.

 

[Madwand1]

Gigabit ethernet, lower-end storage interface cards -- both of these will out-perform such PCI cards. Both of these are also typically built into MB's, but you might want an add-on that does something different or better.

http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/11/23/pci_express_battles_pci/page4.html

 

[ZippZ]

Only other thing is a TV Tuner card, nothing special about it though.

I'm waiting for a PCI-E 56k modem so I can surf the net at hyperspeed!

 

[MDE]

TV tuners, network cards, SATA cards. Pretty much anything that came in a PCI card will eventually also be available in PCIe.

 

[wantonsoup]

Originally posted by: MDE
TV tuners, network cards, SATA cards. Pretty much anything that came in a PCI card will eventually also be available in PCIe.

Not necessarily PCIe x1 though, which is what we're discussing here.

 

[MDE]

Originally posted by: wantonsoup

Originally posted by: MDE
TV tuners, network cards, SATA cards. Pretty much anything that came in a PCI card will eventually also be available in PCIe.

Not necessarily PCIe x1 though, which is what we're discussing here.

But most likely, which is anyone's best guess. Unless you're holding a card that proves otherwise, we're all guessing.

 

[wantonsoup]

Yep, sort of my point. I created this thread asking what's out there, not what could be out in the future.

 

[Peter]

TV tuners and gigabit LAN cards are "out there" today. These happen to be the most constrained on legacy PCI - apart from storage controllers, but these seem to migrate to 4x PCIE.

 

[Raduque]

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[LED]

I'm using the Theater 550 Pro Card that's linked in this thread...then there's this SATA Card and if I didn't have a Firewire 800/1394b PCI card already I would jump ON THIS

 

[framerateuk]

I wish Creative Labs would release a PCI-E version of X-FI.

The Envy24 onboard sound on my shuttle is fine and all, but it doesent have a EQ control, and mysub woofer is very powerfull, and really needs to have the bass turned down. Used to work great with my Audigy 2 but my shuttle has only got a PCI-e slot spair