Building a PC Isn't Hard

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Feb 4, 2008 5:52 PM, Chong Yu Meng <chongym at cymulacrum.net> wrote:
>
> 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?

PCI-X is the 64bit PCI bus/slot.  PCI-E is PCI-Express, which is
vastly different in speed from PCI.


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