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

[Wurrmm]

I have noticed alot of fuss over the NV35 taking up 2 slots. I am curious how many people use them and what they are still using in them. For me it doesn't really matter since my main comps doesn't have a single PCI slot filled.

 

[Actaeon]

3used/6available. Network card, SCSI Card for old-school CD-RW, and a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz.

If I wanted, I could have a "fully functional" PC with just the network card. I would just have to use onboard audio, and ditch a CD-RW (I have another though).

EDIT: NV35 taking up that extra PCI slot is no problem to me. I could honestly care less.

 

[Yomicron]

I'm using 4: Second video card, Modem, NIC Card, and a sound card.

 

[drewdogg808]

1 used/6 available. using a leadtek tv2000xp on 8rda+.

 

[bozo1]

SCSI card, sound card, firewire card, network card.

4

 

[JetBlack69]

2 NICs
SoundBlaster Audigy
TV card
for a grand total of 4.

 

[FishTankX]

5.

Nic
Modem
IDE card
Sound card
TV tuner

 

[BCYL]

2

Sound card
NIC

 

[Megatomic]

None. I might get a TV card so that'd be one slot. If I go SCSI (snowball's chance in hell I'll be able to afford it) that'd be two slots.

My Epox 8RDA+ is wonderful. :heart:

 

[Wurrmm]

Interesting, I figured the average to be 2 or 3. For those peeps with 6 filled, I wonder what they have in them. If I used six slots, I guess they would probably be an NIC, Sound Card, Modem, SCSI, TV tuner, and........maybe another NIC or something.

 

[everman]

Sound, TV, USB2.0 expansion. My mobo has a nic, sound, raid also. I doubt I'll ever need all of the slots.

 

[Wolfsraider]

i voted three

but thats for my main rig now
scsi card
sound card
10/100 card
but i want to add a few items later
they are
tv tuner
scsi card for cdrw and dvd
firewire card
but then i will be out of pci slots
i also use the 10/100 built-in to the mobo for a small network

on my last one 6 avail 6 used lol

but i'm sure if the nv35 does perform the way it looks i could sacrifice a pci slot (yes i realize i changed my mind ,but i still dont want a leaf blower lol)
mike

 

[TROGDORdBURNINATOR]

I don't think that the two slots are the biggest problem with nv35. I think it's the same hampster cage motor fan that was on the Flow FX that might make a lot of noise. It also changed out the plastic hood and rear exhause for a MASSIVE heatsink. The two slots are just a side effect of the MASSIVE cooling solution. I'm more worried about the reasons for needing such cooling. Hope they're nothing like the reasons for the 5800 cooling. Hope that fan doesn't make as much noise as the first too...
A more appropriate poll might have been how many IO plates do you use since a lot of motherboards use two or even three of the case's I/O plates.

 

[jaeger66]

5

SCSI
Modem
Sound
Capture
NIC

The NV35's 2 slot design is very poor. Next they'll probably pull a 3Dfx and make a card the uses a wall wart.

 

[illusion88]

Sound
LAN
USB - doesnt really use PCI but takes up that slot anyways)

 

[Electrode]

Let me think...

Server:
WAN NIC
LAN NIC
USB 2.0 card

Workstation 1:
Sound card

Workstation 2:
Sound card
NIC
USB 1.1 card

Workstation 3:
TV card
NIC
USB 2.0 card

The mode here is 3, so that's what I voted.

 

[jaeger66]

dp

 

[jaeger66]

Originally posted by: illusion88

USB - doesnt really use PCI but takes up that slot anyways)

What? If it's in a PCI slot its on the PCI bus. If you're just talking about IRQ sharing, that hasn't been a problem since 1997.

 

[Pariah]

He's likely talking about a motherboard bracket. They don't use a PCI slot, but block a slot on the back.

 

[jaeger66]

Originally posted by: Pariah
He's likely talking about a motherboard bracket. They don't use a PCI slot, but block a slot on the back.

Ah, yes.

 

[FrustratedUser]

4 I think.

NIC
TV card
Video card <---- Yes, a PCI card.

 

[bgeh]

3
SBLive! Value
Network Card
TV Tuner

all my pci brackets are full

 

[Dennis Travis]

Workstation: 4

NIC
SBLive
USR Hardware PCI Modem
SCSI Card

Server: 3

NIC
SBLive
SCSI Card

WEB, Telnet, FTP Server: 2

NIC
SB128

 

[neutralizer]

EPOX 8KHA+

PCI #1: USB header
PCI #2: Audigy
PCI #3: Audigy Game Port Header
PCI #4: Empty
PCI #5: Empty
PCI #6: Fast Ethernet Card

 

[Corporate Thug]

sound card
NIC
USB
firwire