6 PCI??!?! How many more are we expecting?

[NewCompGeek]

i find it clueless that mobo are now coming out with 6 pci slots how many do we need?

this is all i can think of that uses pci slots, if you have any devices that i left out plz post it.

sound card
nic card
modem
video

 

[ojai00]

Slot fans
DVD decoder
Firewire/USB/IDE controller card

That's all I can think of

 

[Blayze]

Im using 4 right now

Scsi Card
Santa Cruz
Linksys Network Card
DXR3 DVD Decoder Card


Dont know what I would do with 6 PCIs though? Extra video cards for multimon setups?

 

[Cougar]

You forgot SCSI cards

 

[DaFinn]

umm, i got in my rig:

-sound card
-Nic
-SCSI card
-Firewire adapter
-TV card

ok, so I have one spare, but I cannot but enything in the first slot, otherwise my GF3 will run out of air...

 

[DSTA]

It's pretty easy to fill 6 PCI slots:

1. Sound
2. Second vid for multimonitor
3. TV Tuner
4. SCSI
5. Nic
6. Voodoo2 (for those nice and old Glide games)

Just an example that's not too far fetched, IMO.

 

[NFS4]

I'm currently using 5 PCI cards:

Santa Cruz
ATi TV Wonder VE
Best Data 56k Modem
Netgear FA310TX 10/100 NIC
USB 2.0 Card

I also plan on adding a 802.11b wireless PCI card to connect with my Jornada 567 (I will buy a CompactFlash 802.11b card for it).

 

[cleverhandle]

Some computers might need multiple NIC's as well. Also, there are some nifty monitoring devices (like the RD2 Geiger) that use a PCI slot.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Uhm ... Mobos have had 6 PCI slots for a LONG time. Some people actually use them .. I wish they made them with 8 or 9 PCI slots ... than I could have some cool multimonitor Action going

SCSI
VID2
Lan
Sound

Used to have 2 nics in this box
Used to use Add on Raid card
Used to use a Modem

 

[Kitros]

Ya know, it's frikkin' POINTLESS if they aren't gonna give us more IRQs!!!:|

 

[NFS4]

<< Ya know, it's frikkin' POINTLESS if they aren't gonna give us more IRQs!!!:| >>


Ummm, that doesn't even matter with Win2k and WinXP b/c they use virtual IRQ's.

 

[Ionizer86]

It's easy to fill the 7 AGP/PCI/ISA places on the case with cards or headers.
Here's mine atm:
GTS-V video
SB 128 sound
el cheapo 56k
SOHOware 10/100

Now, once my EPoX comes in, I'll add one more, which would be the USB header.

To go over 7:
GTS-V
Audigy card + gameport (2 slots)
el cheapo 56k
10/100 NIC
iLink card (Audigy only has 1 iLink port)
USB 2.0 card
TV tuner
USB bracket (even though the 2.0 card has 1.1 support, it's still nice)

As you can see, that's quite a bit over the 7 slots that come on ATX cases.

 

[Kitros]

<< Ummm, that doesn't even matter with Win2k and WinXP b/c they use virtual IRQ's. >>



gee, musta missed that when they were handing out XP training manuals. I was wondering about that term a while ago.

so, thanks NFS4, I'm gonna do some googling!

 

[Howard]

Some Intel server boards have 7 (although 2 are 64-bit/66MHz).

BurnItDown, drop that sh!tty PCI video card and pick up an Appian Graphics AppianX (four displays out of one PCI slot).

 

[AppleTalking]

Yeah, I'm definitely glad I have six PCI slots on my Epox 8K7A:

Santa Cruz sound card
Linksys NIC
Realtek NIC (for ICS with the other computers in my house)
FireWire card
Extra USB ports (saved me $20 on a hub! )

So I've still got one free. But I am looking at TV tuner cards . . .

Nick

 

[Adul]

lets see


netgear nic
linksys nic
turtlebeach santa cruz
SCSI card
modem
need a tv tuner card next

 

[MasterHoss]

6 PCI slots on a mobo have been around for a few years now. I have 5 of 5 slots filled.

Now if you said something like "Why the hell are mobos still coming with CNRs," I could understand.

 

[KDOG]

I wish they would come out with 2 AGP slots for some REAL multimonitor action without the bandwidth penalty....

 

[Amused]

You guys forgot IDE and IDE RAID cards.

And what we need more than extra PCI slots is more IDE channels, IMO.

BTW, this is what I have:

Firewire
Sound
RAID
NIC
PC Card Reader

 

[Sunner]

Gotta agree here.

Need more than 5 PCI slots?
Get a server/workstation board, whatever you're doing with your comp goes way beyond the avarge home user/enthusiast stuff.

 

[Howard]

<< I wish they would come out with 2 AGP slots for some REAL multimonitor action without the bandwidth penalty... >>


There's a reason why they call it a port and not a bus. Now AGB, I don't see that coming anytime soon. Besides, AGP offers no tangible performance increase (well, maybe a little). The 3dfx Voodoo 5 4500 AGP/PCI had the same performance.

Let's see... Octal Sledge sockets, 4 IDE channels, ATA-166, onboard 3com gigabit Ethernet controller, onboard 3com 10/100 Ethernet controller with 3XP CPU, onboard USB 2.0 controller, onboard IEEE1394 controller, onboard Ultra320 SCSI RAID controller, onboard fiber channel HBA, onboard fiber channel RAID controller, 8 DIMMs, DDR-II, 400MHz+ FSB, 4 64-bit/66MHz PCI slots, 6 32-bit/33/66MHz PCI slots, WTX format, onboard AppianX (quad-display) display adapter with dedicated 1-T 128MB memory, 16X AGP slot, quad-interleaved system memory, 8-layer PCB, 5x4000uF capacitors for each CPU, AGP-Pro specification, etc. etc. That'll be the day.

 

[splice]

You are never going to have more than 6 PCI slots because that is the maximum for the PCI standard.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

TWO PS/2 ports omg!! who needs all them?

oh and what's the cfm on a pci slot anyways?

 

[Howard]

splice - read this.


<< It supports up to two Intel® Pentium® III Xeon ? processors with a 133 MHz system bus for higher performance and reliability. For increased I/O performance, the SBT2 has seven PCI slots. >>

 

[freebee]

Instead of more PCI slots, how about a little more space between them so large heat sinks/fans have some room to operate. All too often the slot next to the agp card can't be used if you put a large heatsink on the vid card. Also with some devices, they are just about touching each other, which is probably not good from a heat perspective and air flow.