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Has anyone ever used or have better knowledge on these pci-x to pci-e adapters? In my mind , they simply convert a pci-x slot to a 1x speed pci-e slot I ASSUME by adding a pci-e bus? However , I know that when it comes to server things I tend to think incorrectly about these types of things being universal. Are these universal or do they require a specific type of machine or chipset or are they for only backpane systems or what.

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it's a PCIe to PCI not PCIe1x.. PCI is not used anymore, for instance, some older hardware interface via pci, this way they might be able to upgrade the computer without upgrading the hardware.. 

Have you tried to perform a sudden temporary interrupt of the electricity flow to your computational device followed by a re-initialization procedure of the central processing unit and associated components?


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4 minutes ago, Changis said:

it's a PCIe to PCI not PCIe1x.. PCI is not used anymore, for instance, some older hardware interface via pci, this way they might be able to upgrade the computer without upgrading the hardware.. 

No, that's PCIx to PCIe.

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10 minutes ago, ShadowTechXTS said:

No, that's PCIx to PCIe.

sorry, you're correct.. 

 

Have you tried to perform a sudden temporary interrupt of the electricity flow to your computational device followed by a re-initialization procedure of the central processing unit and associated components?


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Storage: 2 x Samsung NVMe SSD 960 EVO 256GB in Raid | 2 x Seagate 4TB Expansion Desktop 

(seagates are originally external drives removed from casing and installed internally)
PSU: Seasonic Prime Titanium 850W 
Case: Mission SG GGX 3.5 (same as Rosewill Cullinan or Anidees AI Crystal with other stock fans)
Cooling: Kraken X62 for CPU, Corsair H55 with NZXT Kraken G12 for GPU 

 

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3 hours ago, emosun said:

Has anyone ever used or have better knowledge on these pci-x to pci-e adapters? In my mind , they simply convert a pci-x slot to a 1x speed pci-e slot I ASSUME by adding a pci-e bus? However , I know that when it comes to server things I tend to think incorrectly about these types of things being universal. Are these universal or do they require a specific type of machine or chipset or are they for only backpane systems or what.

Yea all the logic is on that board and converts the PCIe to PCI-X for communication with the reset of the system. The rest of the system just sees it as a PCI-X device, the chipset and CPU don't support PCIe so that is required but rather obvious.

 

Drivers will still work as the OS will recognize the device as a PCIe device on a PCIe bus, that bus being this card much like a USB card would work.

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6 hours ago, emosun said:

gee you dont say

no need to be sarcastic..

Have you tried to perform a sudden temporary interrupt of the electricity flow to your computational device followed by a re-initialization procedure of the central processing unit and associated components?


Personal Rig Specs

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CPU: Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.8GHZ
Motherboard: Asus ROG STRIX Z270H GAMING
Graphics Card: Inno3D ICHILL GEFORCE GTX 1080 TI X3 ULTRA
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX Black DDR4 2x8GB @ 3GHZ
Storage: 2 x Samsung NVMe SSD 960 EVO 256GB in Raid | 2 x Seagate 4TB Expansion Desktop 

(seagates are originally external drives removed from casing and installed internally)
PSU: Seasonic Prime Titanium 850W 
Case: Mission SG GGX 3.5 (same as Rosewill Cullinan or Anidees AI Crystal with other stock fans)
Cooling: Kraken X62 for CPU, Corsair H55 with NZXT Kraken G12 for GPU 

 

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