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i have a motherboard that has 2 PCI slots 2 PCI-E 16x slots and 2 PCI-E 1x slots and i have no idea what to use the regular pci slots for. got any suggestions?

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1 minute ago, xentropa said:

SSD?

you can put ssd's into pci?

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1 minute ago, lolzisgoodforu said:

you can put ssd's into pci?

yeah :P

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wifi cards

sata expansion cards

usb expansion cards

IDE cards

thunderbolt cards

firewire cards

playing cards

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1 minute ago, xentropa said:

SSD?

why would you put a SSD in a PCI slot...

that would be a huge bottleneck

even sata 2 is faster than that

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1 minute ago, Miniman27100 said:

If you do not already have an ssd definitely worth the time and money of adding an ssd.

i already have an ssd but another one cant hurt

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1 minute ago, Enderman said:

why would you put a SSD in a PCI slot...

that would be a huge bottleneck

even sata 2 is faster than that

Intel 750s?

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1 minute ago, ANewFace said:

Intel 750s?

you cant put intel 750s in a PCI slot

you need PCIe for that

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1 minute ago, Enderman said:

you cant put intel 750s in a PCI slot

you need PCIe for that

That's what he means

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1 minute ago, Miniman27100 said:

If you already have one then don't add another, usb expansion cards maybe?

i might not use them but never hurts to have a ton of USB ports xD

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3 minutes ago, SeanAngelo said:

yeah :P

no you cant

i dont think you know what PCI is

this is PCI

PCI_Slots_Digon3.JPG

 

 

1 minute ago, ANewFace said:

That's what he means

did you even read OP??

 

"what to use the regular PCI slots for"

he is NOT talking about PCIe

 

you CANNOT put an SSD in a PCI slot

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You don't have to use them... what do you need right now?

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1 minute ago, ANewFace said:

That's what he means

No, if you read closely he has the following:

2x PCI slots

2x PCIe x16 slots

2x PCIe x1 slots

He wants to know what to do with the PCI slots.

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3 hours ago, lolzisgoodforu said:

 i have no idea what to use the regular pci slots for. got any suggestions?

3 hours ago, ANewFace said:

That's what he means

 

Nope.

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3 minutes ago, HPWebcamAble said:

You don't have to use them... what do you need right now?

at the moment nothing really, i was just wondering what else i could put in my pc for something that i may need in the future

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12 minutes ago, shadowbyte said:

playing cards

Hah.

 

RAID controller could be a useful in occupying one of those slots.

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2 minutes ago, smittywits said:

Hah.

 

RAID controller could be a useful in occupying one of those slots.

i hope i dont sound completely retarded but what is a raid controller?

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4 minutes ago, lolzisgoodforu said:

i hope i dont sound completely retarded but what is a raid controller?

 

Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks/Redundant Array of Independent Disks.

 

Basically, it combines two or more disk drives into one visible disk. There are many varying uses, from increasing speed to increasing storage redundancy, and can include quite a large number of disk drives.

 

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1 minute ago, lolzisgoodforu said:

NO WAY THATS SO COOLLL

^_^ They're called PCI CPU cards. From what I've seen they've got both the PCI connector and a PCIe x8 connector on board

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3 minutes ago, smittywits said:

 

Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks/Redundant Array of Independent Disks.

 

Basically, it combines two or more disk drives into one visible disk. There are many varying uses, from increasing speed to increasing storage redundancy, and can include quite a large number of disk drives.

 

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

oh ok that clears things up thank you

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1 minute ago, burnttoastnice said:

^_^ They're called PCI CPU cards. From what I've seen they've got both the PCI connector and a PCIe x8 connector on board

i need to buy one of these lol

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