Do PCI-e x1 Video Cards exist?

[josedawg]

I'm looking for a pci-e x1 slot video card, cant seem to find any. Do they exist yet? I've searched newegg and they seem to only carry x16 vid cards. On a side note, newegg needs to get their search in order, they have only pci express, and dont differentiate between the different slot types available (x1, x8, x16) so its hard to find what you want.

If anyone knows an x1 vid card, let me know. Its for a server a friend of mine is getting that has an x8 slot, so an x1 or even x8 (do these even exist yet) vid card.

 

[stevty2889]

As far as I know, they don't make them, only 16x, a 1x PCIe card, would be almost like running an old PCI card, so it's unlikely any will be made.

 

[AnnoyedGrunt]

They only show X16 video cards because there are only X16 video cards.

I doubt there will every be an X1 video card (except maybe from Matrox) since the bandwidth would be a step back from AGP 8X (and even though the full 8X isn't even used, I doubt many card makers would release a new card on something that much slower than the current tech).

I think the X1 slots will be mainly for sound cards, network cards, DAQ's, stuff like that.

The X8 slot might be the same as an X16 slot (depending on how things are marketed). For instance, the nForce4 can run two cards in SLI, but when it does that it splits the PCIe X16 slots (where one slot is getting X16 bandwith and the other is getting 0 bandwith) into X16 sized slots each with X8 bandwith. I think the Intel server boards that support SLI go with a x16/x4 config (but still have two physical X16 slots), instead of an x8/x8, so maybe his situation is something like that?

What Mobo does the server use? Maybe we can make some suggestions.

-D'oh!

 

[uOpt]

What if you want more than one card in your computer?

 

[Sureshot324]

Any reason why you can't run an x16 card in a x1 slot, like you can run an agp 8x card in a slower agp slot? It would obviously be too slow for games, but useful for multiple monitors. Anyway i'm sure that eventually someone will make a cheap video card that works in x1 slots.

 

[klah]

Originally posted by: Sureshot324
Any reason why you can't run an x16 card in a x1 slot, like you can run an agp 8x card in a slower agp slot?

They are physically keyed so you can not insert a card into a lower rated slot.

AGP 2.0 and 3.0 share a nearly identical pinout, only the signalling method being slightly changed.

 

[cheesehead]

Dumb question, but is is possible to use dual graphics cards in a NON-SLI'd configuration? Dualie 6200's might be interesting for a low-cost quad monitor system.
Also, why the bloody blazes would Matrox make a card that slow? I thought they were in the market for workstation level cards.