I am looking at getting a new motherboard and it only has 1 PCI slot, but it has 2 PCI-X slots. My questions is how do I know if my current PCI cards will work in the PCI-X slot. From what I read the PCI card has to be keyed to allow 3.3 volt operation. I have no idea what that means.
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You will be able to install only one of your pci cards as the motherboard has only one pci slot.You can't install pci cards on pci-x slots and vice versa.
This is from Wikipedia (I know its not always correct).
Quote:PCI-X is generally backward compatible with PCI, meaning that you can, for example, install a PCI card that is keyed to allow 3.3V operation in a PCI-X slot. A PCI-X card can be installed in a PCI slot provided it has the correct voltage keying for the slot and (if inserting in a 32 bit slot) nothing obstructs the overhanging part of the edge connector. PCI and PCI-X cards can be intermixed on a PCI-X bus, but the speed will be limited to the speed of the slowest card (for this reason and the voltage compatibility issue most systems with PCI-X will have a normal PCI bus as well) . PCI-X improves the fault tolerance of PCI allowing, for example, faulty cards to be reinitialized or taken offline.
I am not sure if you are confusing PCI-X with PCI-Express.
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klassic, look at the difference between the pci slot & the pci/x slots. notice the slot divider in the pci is towards the bottom of slot compared to the 1 in the pci/x slots which is at the top of the slots? see which of your 2 pci cards would appear to fit in the pci/x slot as that divider will prevent a pci card that doessn't have that notch there to fit in the slot.
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