PCIx in PCI slots...

[farscape1]

Originally Posted by dawkab

I'm thinking it might be good for running a vienna ensemble pro network.

The first two pci slots will be inaccessible without cutting off the pcix pins on the HD cards edge connectors. The southbridge heat sink gets in the way in slot 1, and the bios chip gets in the way in slot 2.

cant u just remove or dremmel a lane in the heatsink?any new news on this thread,just getting interesting

[dubrichie]

hey Dawkab, how is your system running?

i am VERY strongly considering building a new machine with that mobo.

all the best,

[jackp]

hey Guys I have Asus P5WDG2 Ws Professional with windows Xp pro
I'am running an hd 2 accell . In my 2 PCI-X slots I have 1 core, and 1 accell card
I have 2 extra PCI slots and there is room for another Accell Card beside the existing accell card. So is it ok to run a accell card in the one of the PCI slot Is there any special install instuction or do I just pop in the pci slot and boot it up
Thanks jack

[dawkab]

Originally Posted by farscape1

cant u just remove or dremmel a lane in the heatsink?any new news on this thread,just getting interesting

PCI slot two is the next in-line for a fourth HD card. But the BIOS chip is in the way - and I don't know if you want to dremmel through that!

[dawkab]

Originally Posted by dubrichie

hey Dawkab, how is your system running?

i am VERY strongly considering building a new machine with that mobo.

all the best,

its running fine. Stable and fast. One crash so far - probably related to dodgy vst wrapped plugs. I'd say go for it.

[jackp]

I have a hd 2 accell so I will be installing a third card not a frth card there is room in pci 1 for the 3 rd card I have a usb card in pci 2 will this be ok. Are there any special installing instruction other than just install the card and hooking up the flex cable
Thanks Jack

[Brandonx1]

Originally Posted by jackp

hey Guys I have Asus P5WDG2 Ws Professional with windows Xp pro
I'am running an hd 2 accell . In my 2 PCI-X slots I have 1 core, and 1 accell card
I have 2 extra PCI slots and there is room for another Accell Card beside the existing accell card. So is it ok to run a accell card in the one of the PCI slot Is there any special install instuction or do I just pop in the pci slot and boot it up
Thanks jack

Yes it's fine to have an hd 4 in the mb. I used an hd 4 in it for a few years and I worked very well

[jackp]

so its fine to run 3rd accell card in PCI slot 1
Thanks jack

[Abomb97]

....bump....


I made another post elsewhere but I wanted to keep the input and discussion going on finding a working Sandy Bridge solution for HD PCIx.

Dual Boot: Hackintosh osx / Win7 preferably!


J

[Firechild]

Have anyone tried to just cut/chop the extra "lanes" off to make the "PCI-X" hd card fit better in a tight mobo ?
What I understand the cards are PCI but for some strange reasons they used PCI-X form factor, but does it mean that the extra lanes are just dummies ?