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How many PCI Slots do you use?

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Personally, with all of the high performance nVidia cards coming out I want to know how many people really need that one extra PCI Slot. Honestly, I want to see if the "It takes a PCI Slot" arrguement is justified. Personally, I'll be getting a a Firewire expansion card in the near feature and a TV-Tuner Card.
 
TV-Card (Ledteak, 2000xp)
Sound card (Santa Cruz)
Network Card 10/100 (Intel Pro)
Generic 56k Modem
Pci Switch for CC
Wireless Card 2.4ghz (802.11b)

using all 6 spaces, 5 slots
 
Four out of six (IDE controller, modem, network, and sound card), and since I want to leave the other two available for future expansion, you won't be finding any dust-buster video cards in my case. :frown:
 
Originally posted by: ultimatebob
I'm not using any PCI slots on two of my systems. One of them is a Shuttle XPC, and the other one is a laptop. 🙂
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Maybe the poll should be "what percent of your PCI slots are full" to compensate for people like you, ultimatebob. 😉
 
Two. SCSI and TV-in. LAN, sound, USB are on the mainboard.

Highest I ever used was four - that was on the previous machine that didn't have AGP nor onboard LAN.
 
Originally posted by: McMadman
sound
nic
promise card

could use onboard nic, but I've already got a decent nic so why bother?
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why bother wasteing it on a mobo that has a decent nic as well? 😉


i don't have any pci cards in my computer anymore, they are all sitting on my shelf. it is a funny reminder of back in the times when onboard components were a bad thing.
 
Originally posted by: TheSnowman
Originally posted by: McMadman
could use onboard nic, but I've already got a decent nic so why bother?
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why bother wasteing it on a mobo that has a decent nic as well? 😉


i don't have any pci cards in my computer anymore, they are all sitting on my shelf. it is a funny reminder of back in the times when onboard components were a bad thing.
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I'm using a k7s5a, never bothered to even try the onboard sis lan, figured i'd be better off using the old reliable linksys card, although I might use the nforce onboard when I eventually get one.
 
The integrated SiS LAN works excellently - and produces much lower system load than anything on PCI ... because the SiS internal connections are MUCH faster than PCI could ever be. I'm using it.
It's long been time to forget the "onboard==slow' myth ... nowadays, PCI is the SLOWEST connection in there (except for the legacy serial, parallel, kbd/mouse connections).
 
It can be a little hard to forget the older days, but onboard solutions really are getting quite decent (an all in one nforce2 board would be a great solution for people with older systems and limited budget, I priced a system for about $300 (case/256mb pc2700/lowball xp cpu) that would be a great upgrade for someone I know that is still using an AT board and a k6-2/400)


I just found a reason why I never tried to use the sis lan, the IO shield that came with the board won't fit into my case, and the normal shield just has holes for the 2 usb ports effectively blocking the lan.
 
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