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| Young Guru Posts: 243/279 |
When I bought my computer i tried to cut some costs everywhere, a few dollars here, some more there, had to keep it under a certain price so that insurance would pay for the whole thing. I ended up with this mobo (I now realize I probably should have gotten something else). Anyways, I've got a PCI-e graphics card, a PCI sound card, and a PCI wireless card, so I might end up just scrapping (putting it in a box and saving it for later) the wireless card for a network card because right now our school's wireless is not so hot and they've been getting on my ass for hooking up my own router to the network connection in my room. Anyways, looking back at the mobo I'm realizing that my initial request was totally pointless, my desktop is currently in a storage unit 2200 miles away and I remembered it was PCI-e so I figured that I'd probably have a free pci-e slot, but now that I've thought about it there aren't any free pci-e slots, so I'll just say it right now, I'm a dumbass for not thinking before I posted. Anyways, thanks for the help, now I've gotta get out to bestbuy before my coupons expire. |
| Metal Man88 Posts: 612/701 |
It may be a Crossfire or SLI mobo... in which case, using that port is a DOUBLE no-no. However, my case has several PCI slots, should I need them. I wonder why his only has 2. Even Micro-ATX mobos have 2 at times. |
| Kailieann Posts: 733/808 |
It looks like there's only two PCI slots to begin with. Admittedly, I don't have two PCI cards, but it's entirely conceivable that the original poster might.
Of course, an interesting question would be, why does he have a PCI-e slot free? Traditionally, one would not have a PCI-e motherboard unless one has a PCI-e card to fill the slot. |
| Xkeeper Posts: 5127/5653 |
Are you sure it has no open PCI-slots?
That seems extremely odd, considering most expansion cards spare video are all PCI. |
| Young Guru Posts: 242/279 |
Thanks for the help, there's no PCI slots open on it (ABIT AG8), I'll think about the USB, maybe I can try to fix the onboard LAN, could be a fun little experiment in how good I am with hardware and test my worth as a EE. |
| Metal Man88 Posts: 611/701 |
There's extra voltages and stuff. You can't put a PCI card in a PCI-E slot. Try to free a PCI one, or get a USB Lan thingy... those work too. |
| Xkeeper Posts: 5125/5653 |
No. |
| Young Guru Posts: 241/279 |
Question, can a pci card work in a pci-e mother board. I need to get a NIC because my onboard lan got snapped during shipping and I can't find a pci-e NIC at best buy and want to know if a pci NIC will work in the slot. Thanks. |
