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Just curious of what people think of motherboards wiith 2 pci-xpress slots.
Is it a 'blip' on the upgrade treadmill or is it here to stay? Or perhaps
just somthing relegated to gamers that would live along side more mainstream
single pci-xpress motherboards released in the future?
 
If you are into 32 inch widescreen LCD monitors and like to play games, you
might consider it. If you are like the rest of us, one video card slot will
be sufficient for a long time. After all, single slot dual GPU cards are
available too.
 
Its here to stay,unfortuntly the technology/hardware isnt perfected yet,at
this
point the purchase of 2 cards & board isnt worth it.
 
Gnome said:
Just curious of what people think of motherboards wiith 2 pci-xpress
slots. Is it a 'blip' on the upgrade treadmill or is it here to stay?
Or perhaps just somthing relegated to gamers that would live along
side more mainstream single pci-xpress motherboards released in the
future?
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I'm not a gamer, but it seems like a good idea to me. If I could afford it
(and had a big-enough desk), I'd love to have two dual-head video cards for
a total of four monitors.
 
SLI (Symmetrical Link Interface) is expensive and requires Video
cards that have very similar capabilities/chipsets. Believe it's use
is primarily to scale up gaming performance, not for delivering
multiple monitor output(s). In fact I remember some documentation
on SLI/Crossfire that multiple monitor outputs are disabled when
the cards work in scaling mode.
 
R. McCarty said:
SLI (Symmetrical Link Interface) is expensive and requires Video
cards that have very similar capabilities/chipsets. Believe it's use
is primarily to scale up gaming performance, not for delivering
multiple monitor output(s). In fact I remember some documentation
on SLI/Crossfire that multiple monitor outputs are disabled when
the cards work in scaling mode.
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Thanks. I know next to nothing about this.

But I'd still like to have four monitors. ;-)
 
I don't know that much, but occasionally I get an order for a
"Gaming" PC - which involves a lot more research than your
average/above Desktop PC. I do know that if you use a PCIe
nVidia card in a 2-Lane system it will constantly remind you it
is SLI capable and suggests something like....
"Why not go get yourself another nVidia card to set it up."
Very annoying nag screen. (Which needs a Registry tweak to
disable!)
 
Gnome said:
Just curious of what people think of motherboards wiith 2 pci-xpress
slots. Is it a 'blip' on the upgrade treadmill or is it here to stay? Or
perhaps just somthing relegated to gamers that would live along side more
mainstream single pci-xpress motherboards released in the future?
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One of my sons went to a famous PC parts store to buy a faster video card.
A game he tried to install said his video card was inadequate. He was only
able to tell him his PC was a one year old HP desktop. They sold him an
PCI-E version of an ATI video card.
I went to his house to visit and he told me the story. He invited me to
install the video card. I opened up his PC. 3 open PCI slots. Pinouts
for, but no AGP slot. No other slots...
He took the video card back.
You can guess what my son thinks of PCI-E slots.
 
Jonny said:
One of my sons went to a famous PC parts store to buy a faster video
card. A game he tried to install said his video card was inadequate. He
was only able to tell him his PC was a one year old HP desktop. They sold
him an PCI-E version of an ATI video card.
I went to his house to visit and he told me the story. He invited me
to install the video card. I opened up his PC. 3 open PCI slots. Pinouts
for, but no AGP slot. No other slots...
He took the video card back.
You can guess what my son thinks of PCI-E slots.
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He should vent his wrath on the store that sold him the wrong card for the
computer he had rather than on PCI-E slots. Or if he was unable to tell them
specifically what computer he had, maybe he should simply blame himself.
 
Ken Blake said:
He should vent his wrath on the store that sold him the wrong card for the
computer he had rather than on PCI-E slots. Or if he was unable to tell
them specifically what computer he had, maybe he should simply blame
himself.
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He only knew he had just a barely one year old HP desktop PC. He never
opens up his PC, and is barely familiar with a few hardware terms. The
clerk, based on the bare info provided, suggested the PCI-E card. He wasn't
angry about that, rather, HP only providing a few PCI slots. No AGP or
PCI-E slot. He's basically stuck with PC barely one year old that has no
chance of substantial video upgrade to support today's games, onboard video
only. No, I didn't give my 29 year old son the lecture of you get what you
pay for regarding the HP desktop.
 
Jonny said:
He only knew he had just a barely one year old HP desktop PC. He
never opens up his PC, and is barely familiar with a few hardware
terms. The clerk, based on the bare info provided, suggested the
PCI-E card.
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If I worked in such a store and somebody came in wanting to buy a video
card, but didn't know what interface he required, I'd send him back to
either find out or to bring the computer in to check. Blindly suggesting a
PCIE card that may or may be suitable is irresponsible.

But it's probably par for the course in most such "famous PC parts stores."
 
Jonny said:
One of my sons went to a famous PC parts store to buy a faster video card.
A game he tried to install said his video card was inadequate. He was only
able to tell him his PC was a one year old HP desktop. They sold him an
PCI-E version of an ATI video card.
I went to his house to visit and he told me the story. He invited me to
install the video card. I opened up his PC. 3 open PCI slots. Pinouts
for, but no AGP slot. No other slots...
He took the video card back.
You can guess what my son thinks of PCI-E slots.
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Must have gotten a real good price on that HP desktop. Unfortunately,
you never save enough money buying a low end box, to be able to buy the
parts that would make it worth keeping more than year or two. And the
game industry will leave the econo boxes dead while they are still on
the shelf.
 
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