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How many PCI slots do you use, and what do you have in them??

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in my old system I had all 5 used. but thanks to my new mainboard I have everything built on to it so I dont have to take up a PCI slot.

the only ones I still need are a NIC and my TV card.
 
Main game : 1 SCSI card
game 2 : 1 NIC (no onboard)
game 3 : none (ECS K7S5A)
game 4 : 1 NIC
son 1 : 2 sound and NIC
work 1 : 1 SCSI
DVD burner/video machine : 4 SCSI,NIC,sound,TV/capture

I voted 1 card as the usual. (except the video machine)
 
3 used 5 avail


PCI 1 = unused
PCI 2 = Netgear NIC
PCI 3 = unused
PCI 4 = Leadtek TV2000XPDLX
PCI 5 = Hercules Fortissimo2 digital edition
 
Nada... Zero... None. I did have a modem... but I moved and now have DSL and the A7N8X Dlx has built in NIC. I used a SB Live! But it died on my so I use the onboard sound.
 
For those who feel 2 slots for a GPU is too much just look at the numbers. Most people use only 1-4 slots.
 
Audigy2
Matrox G450 PCI

just 2 out of 5

- TV tuner is on my AIW9700PRo so I saved a slot there. Took out my 3com NIC to use onboard intel NIC so I saved another slot.
 
Main rig current: 2
NIC
Sound Blaster Audigy 1

Main rig after I get around to installing my MSI K7N2 Delta-ILSR: 0

Server Rig: 2
Soundblaster Live 5.1 (Will be Audigy after other upgrade)
NIC
Promise TX2 Ultra 100 (to allow each of my 4 hard drives and 2 CD drives their own IDE channel)

\Dan
 
I have 2 32-bit PCI slots and 3 64-bit PCI slots.

There is one 3Com NIC in one of the 32-bit slots and a TBSC in the other. The 64-bit slots are empty.
 
Out of 6 PCI slots I use one for my sound card, one for my modem and one for my NIC if I need to hook up to a LAN.

The fact that a video card takes up two slots doesn't bother me at all.
 
Originally posted by: Wurrmm
For those who feel 2 slots for a GPU is too much just look at the numbers. Most people use only 1-4 slots.
Click to expand...
For those who only use a few PCI slots, a leaf blower GPU is fine. However, some of us do have all (or most, and plan to fill up all in the near future) PCI slots filled, and/or don't want a leaf blower for a GPU. Got a problem with that?
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<-- has 4 out of 6 (sound, network, modem, ide controller) filled, and is looking at tv tuners and scsi cards. 😛
 
I use 2 slots both for 10/100 NICs though I do have a number of the blanking plates at the back of the machine taken with with USB2 and Audio ports.
 
none... my MSI 845PE MAX2-FISR has it all, onboard Gb LAN, 6ch sound, USB2, Firewire...

Only additional card is my MSI GF4 Ti-4200 VIVO 128Mb.

The brackets for the firewire, usb2 and diagnostic leds take 3 pci slots though!


:beer:😀
 
Video Card on AGP

Matrox RT2500 Firewire Card
TV Tuner
NIC
PCI slot fan
Extra USB Ports from Motherboard
Extra USB Ports from Motherboard

I have 3 free slots on the motherboard but no free spaces in the case (total of 7, using 7 slots)
If i needed to, i'd get rid of the PCI slot fan, but, for now, it's there 😉
 
PCI #1 - not used, available
PCI #2 - not used, available
PCI #3 - not used, unavailable due to bracket for onboard firewire
PCI #4 - not used, available
PCI #5 - used, taken up by 56K modem

using an Asus A7N8X 2.0 deluxe therefore alot of things i use are built-in
 
0 PCI slot- USB header port(over the AGP slot in my case, eliminates the need to use up an actual PCI slot)
1 PCI- Nothing
2 PCI- Philips Seismic Edge
3 PCI- nothing
4 PCI- Modem
5 PCI- nothing
CNR- Nothing

Need something to take up some space too. At this point, with the Mafia patch to fix the sound issue with NF2 audio, I would likely yank my sound card except my rig would be nearly empty and there really is little difference betwee the SE and the NF2 sound I have(cheap 2 channel offering, not the full SoundStorm).
 
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