PCI 64 sound cards?

clessoulis · Post by **clessoulis** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 1:33 am

Is there such thing as PCI 64 slot sound cards? I'm trying to free up some of my regular pci slots and I have 2x pci 64 slots. Are there any such things as pci 64 cards or any sort anymore?

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 1:39 am

wtf is pci 64? is it pci express, isa, eisa?

clessoulis · Post by **clessoulis** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 1:44 am

Maybe i've got the wrong name let me get my camera and hook it up.

Its a pci slot thats way longer than a pci slot and has 3 sections too it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral ... terconnect on the page there the second picture on the far right. The ones in the power mac.

Post by **odditude** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 1:49 am

There have been no consumer sound cards with a PCI-X connection. I don't know about pro-audio cards, but I doubt they are what you're looking for.

Many PCI-X slots are backwards-compatible with 3.3V PCI cards. Check your motherboard manual and the specs for any PCI cards you have in your system. PCI cards that have a rear notch will run in a 3.3V PCI slot and should physically fit in your PCI-X slots. Note that if you are actually using PCI-X cards in the other slots, you might mangle your max bandwidth on the PCI-X bus by dropping a regular PCI card in there (again, check your motherboard documentation).

clessoulis · Post by **clessoulis** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 2:00 am

Odd I swear I'm just gonna kidnap you and keep you as my personal tech guy you seem to be the one to always be able to answer my question.