<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 15:28, Worik Stanton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:worik.stanton@gmail.com">worik.stanton@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On 15/08/11 15:15, Joel Wiramu Pauling wrote:<br>
> How a mobo manufacturer arranges their card slots on their PCB's has<br>
> nothing to do with the price of fish;-) Or the standard as defined.<br>
><br>
</div>What I mean is the PCI-e x 16 illustrated is the same as that in the<br>
photos of gear described as PCI-e with no further qualifiers.<br></blockquote><br>In the case of graphics cards, if it just says PCIe it'll be x16. I think it'd be pretty unusual to find a PCIe motherboard which doesn't have an x16 slot these days.<br>
<br>For other types of cards PCIe alone would generally mean x1. Note that a "smaller" card will work in a "larger" slot, e.g. a x1 card
will fit and work in a x16 slot. Some motherboards have open ended slots
that also permit a "larger" card to work in a smaller slot (i.e. you
may be able to put a x16 card in an x8 slot). You can also buy adapters that'll interface between a larger card and a smaller slot. See for example <a href="http://www.adexelec.com/pciexp.htm#PEXP4-SX-4/1">http://www.adexelec.com/pciexp.htm#PEXP4-SX-4/1</a>. Obviously these might mean that the card doesn't fit well into the case though.<br>
<br>The main thing to be careful of is the distinction between PCI and PCIe.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Steve<br></div>