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Are there different sizes of PCI cards?

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thecapper

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This card is made by Texas Instruments and says PCI on it, but it's WAY bigger than the PCI slot in my Dell 5150. I hate to have to go to PCI-E, cuz they're more expensive.

Anyone know what gives?
 
It's a PCI-X card. It will fit in the regular PCI slot but will run at a slower bus speed (typically). I assume it has Firewire 800 and thus why they made it PCI-X
 
Thanks Quasmo!

It sounds like I need to go ahead and get a PCI Express Firewire card if I want to take advantage of the higher bus speeds. I've got the slot for it, just didn't know that's what I needed!

Oh well...live and learn...

thx again!
 
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