News - Albatron launches GeForce 9500 GT with PCIe x1 interface

[HEXUS]

Motherboard lacking a PCIe x16 slot? Here's a graphics card for you.

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[Biscuit]

If this is at the right price it might save me a bit of cash from going to the zotac x16 pci-e board so i can go for a cheaper one for my HTPC.

[rabbid]

If they include a low profile bracket would be good

[Biscuit]

i think this one would work.

[Georgy291]

all they need now is a SLI option for those off us who got few different PCI-e x1 slots

[Biscuit]

What would be the point in that :/

[Georgy291]

well you know to bost the power off the card in to sli config


sorry i missed out the sarcastic smiley

it was meant to be a joke

[CrazyMonkey]

Would be handy for multi-displays as said.

Wondering if it could be paired with an ATI card (only to power multi-display) though? Or would there be driver conflicts?

[scaryjim]

at least now we've got somewhere to point people when they ask about multi-monitor setups in the forums

[gamer91]

I'm thinking this would be a brilliant addition to a mini-itx board

[Sumanji]

OOI would the 9500GT be bottlenecked on that interface?

Cheers,

Suman

[scaryjim]

OOI would the 9500GT be bottlenecked on that interface?

If you're worrying about the interface bottlenecking a low end graphics card, you're doing something wrong

Given that it has only 1/16th the bandwidth of a PCI-e x16 (obviously!) my guess is that the interface may bottleneck the performance if you try playing modern games with large textures / high detail (the 9500GT isn't really suitable for gaming above 1024x768 *anyway*) . If (like me!) you mostly play older games I suspect it won't make much difference, and if you just want it for web browsing etc (which is more likely) then I doubt you'd notice at all...