Building a PC Isn't Hard

[Chong Yu Meng]

On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 07:25 -0800, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> Hopefully you meant PCI-E, as there are no NVIDIA PCI-X cards.

Hi Lonni,

Pardon my ignorance! It's been a long time since I understood most of
the important hardware acronyms. What is the difference between PCI-E
and PCI-X? Are they physically different. I now use motherboards with
everything built-in, but I'll probably need to know this soon. Would
legacy PCI cards (such as my 3com NIC) be able to plug into a PCI-E or
PCI-X slot?

Regards,
pascal chong