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 09-05-2005, 03:24 PM | #1 |
| Administrator Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 2,952  |  PCI Express Bus Tutorial There has been a new article posted. Title: PCI Express Bus Tutorial URL: http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/190 Here's a snippet: The processor communicates with other peripherals in the PC through a path of data called bus. Since the release of the first PC, in 1981, up to the present day, several types of bus have been develop... Comments on this article are welcome. |
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| 09-08-2005, 04:47 AM | #2 |
| Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 1 | X1, X4, cards and sockets, are they interchangable? Clearly it is not possible to plug a X4 or X16 card into an X1 socket, but is it possible to plug a smaller card into a larger socket? ie. plug an X1 card into a X4 or X16 socket? Cheers. |
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| 09-09-2005, 11:52 AM | #3 |
| Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 6 | Yes you can, PCIe is compatable as long as the co-efficent of the x is lower on the card then the co-efficent of x on the slot you wish to use. Thus a 1x card would fit in a 1x, 4x, 8x, or 16x slot. A 1x slot will fit only 1x cards A 4x slot will fit only 1x, and 4x cards A 8x Slot will fit only 1x, 4x, and 8x cards A 16x slot will fit only 1x, 4x, 8x, and 16x cards |
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