Re: x4 PCI express card in x16 slot?

[Adrian Merwood <adrian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul,

I have an ASUS ALI8SN32 (??) its the dual full 16x SLi board with an=20=20
addional 4x PCIe very nice board.  With a Athlon Dual Core and 2GB ram.
Adrian

On 5 Aug 2006, at 11:47, Paul Gale wrote:

> Yes definitely the 3Ware/AMCC card - came out well in a roundup=20=20
> review at Toms Hardware. Probably the 9590SE.
>
> Which M/B have you got?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul.
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On=20=20
>> Behalf Of
>> Adrian Merwood
>> Sent: 05 August 2006 10:33
>> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] x4 PCI express card in x16 slot?
>>
>> Paul,
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>> Which card are you going to go with - the 3ware?  My ASUS board
has
>> the x4 PCI
>>
>> Adrian
>>
>> On 4 Aug 2006, at 08:27, Paul Gale wrote:
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>>> I=92m still working out what kit to put in my new server =96
one of the
>>> components is a x4 PCI Express SATA RAID controller. There are
>>> actually two versions =96 a PCI-X or x4 PCI express card. As
PCI-X
>>> are quite rare on desktop boards (affordable), I was thinking
of
>>> using a standard desktop board with and extra x16 PCI express
slot
>>> and putting the card in this.
>>>
>>> From what I can make out, the smaller x4 PCI express card can
be
>>> used in the larger x16 PCI express slot =96 is this true?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Paul.
>>>
>>>
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