Expansion Slots

[Englander]

Hello all, I have a couple of questions about expansion slots.

1. My board has 3 PCI-e x16 slots labelled 1, 2 and 3. I currently have my graphics card in the first one, but that blocks quite a few slots. Would it make a difference if I moved it down to no. 3 at the bottom?

2. Also, I have a couple of PCI cards but only 1 PCI slot. What I do have, though, are a couple of spare PCI-e x16 slots. Can I safely plug a PCI card (network card) into a PCI-e x16 slot?

Thanks in advance,
Michael

[CooperXS]

1) no it won't make a difference since both blue slots are identical (according to Asus)
2) don't even think about this

[alsenior]

1. depends on how the slot is wired by the looks of your board the answer would be no unless there is a biso issue with this
2. You cannot plus a pci card into a pci-e slot inless there is some sort of adapter in the middle.

Hope that helps

Edit:

Beaten to it

[Englander]

Well, my internet searches haven't been overly pleasing so far... do such adapters exist?

Looking for either PCI-e x1 OR x16 ----> PCI

[shaithis]

Your unlikely to find one and if you did it will be costly and probably need some kind of case modification.

The cheaper option (esp if the PCI card is a NIC) is to buy a PCI-E version of the car....although most motherboard have decent LAN on them anyway these days.

[Englander]

Thing is, the ethernet socket on my motherboard has decided to stop working (tried installing every driver under the sun and it still won't recognise it) so I need that, and I would rather keep my TV card, too. Thanks for the reply, though

[Will404]

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Lycom...I-Express-Host

Probably the cheapest option