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Where's me slots!

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  • 18-02-2008 5:28pm
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    ntlbell
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    Just looking at a few of the newer boards.

    It's been about 5 years since I built a pc and a lot of the boards seem to come with two PCI-E slots and no PCI

    Are the many boards with 4-5 slots?


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    Anti
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    No board apart from server boards have 4-5 pci slots now. 2 x pci-e is normal or even 3 on the new 780i chipset boards. Nowa days 2 pci slots is about the max you will find, but if you use a dual slot carn you will most likely loose one. Although i do believe, if memory serves me right the abit fatality ( 650i ) has 3 pci slots.


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    ntlbell
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    Anti wrote: »
    No board apart from server boards have 4-5 pci slots now. 2 x pci-e is normal or even 3 on the new 780i chipset boards. Nowa days 2 pci slots is about the max you will find, but if you use a dual slot carn you will most likely loose one. Although i do believe, if memory serves me right the abit fatality ( 650i ) has 3 pci slots.

    The problem I see before me is I wanted to use a passively cooled gfx these all take up two slots ya?

    So I'm a bit stumped as to where to put the TV tuner....


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    Anti
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    Some boards do have 1 pci slot at the bottom of the board. So you can lash it in there.


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