PCI-E X8 card

[IBM_THINKPAD_R51]

Is there any other pci x8 graphics card besides the EVGA GeForce GT 720 2GB card?

 

Here is a link to the graphics card:

 

http://www.microcenter.com/product/437405/GeForce_GT_720_2GB_PCIe_Video_Card

 

   

[thekeemo]

Do you need X8 electrically or physically?

Because a X16 GPU will work without issue in a a X8 configuration (but not x8 slot)

[Godlygamer23]

Why do you need an x8 card?

[Hackentosher]

PCIE is all backwards compatible and ooey gooey goodness with itself. If you really wanted to, you could put a Titanx In an X1 slot (assuming the back of the slot is open to allow the rest of the card's connector) and it would still work. Bottlenecked as hell, but it would work. You don't need an X8 card if you have an X8 slot, you can do basically whatever as long as it's all PCIE.

[IBM_THINKPAD_R51]

@Godlygamer23 @thekeemo Because I'm using a server with PCI-X, PCI-E (x8 and x4), and PCI.

 

Dell PowerEdge 1800 

Processor: http://ark.intel.com/products/27091/64-bit-Intel-Xeon-Processor-3_80-GHz-2M-Cache-800-MHz-FSB (two of them)

 

8GB of advanced ECC MEM

 

240GB in raid 1

 

 

(x8 slot and x4 slot)

yes, physically 

 

[thekeemo]

Just now, IBM_THINKPAD_R51 said:

@Godlygamer23 @thekeemo Because I'm using a server with PCI-X, PCI-E (x8 and x4), and PCI.

 

Dell PowerEdge 1800 

Processor: http://ark.intel.com/products/27091/64-bit-Intel-Xeon-Processor-3_80-GHz-2M-Cache-800-MHz-FSB (two of them)

 

8GB of advanced ECC MEM

 

240GB in raid 1

 

That isnt a CPU that is  CPU family.. anyway just dremel or sand the back of the slot

[David_K]

Quick search I found few more.

 

http://pny.com/gt-720-1024mb-ddr3?sku=VCGGT7201D3LXPB

 

http://www.asus.com/Graphics-Cards/GT630SL1GD3L/

 

 

[IBM_THINKPAD_R51]

@David K Definitely considering the Asus card. Thanks!

 

 

 

http://www.asus.com/Graphics-Cards/GT630SL1GD3L/

[thekeemo]

5 minutes ago, IBM_THINKPAD_R51 said:

@David K Definitely considering the Asus card. Thanks!

 

 

 

http://www.asus.com/Graphics-Cards/GT630SL1GD3L/

The 630 and the 720 are the same card under the hood

[IBM_THINKPAD_R51]

@thekeemo so it's the little details i guess...

[David_K]

@IBM_THINKPAD_R51 actually looking at the specs @asus site they state their 630 is using GK208 , 384 Cuda cores. which is twise the cores of the 720GT which has GK208@ 192 Cuda cores. so actually the 630 is a 730 (the DDR3 64bit one)

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_700_series

 

So the asus Frankenstein is better, it still has the same horrible 64 bit but on DDR3, but at least in one aspect its better. 

[IBM_THINKPAD_R51]

@David_K true