How many PCI Slots do you use?

[Tab]

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.

 

[amdskip]

I am using 3, network card, sound card, and tv card.

 

[boyRacer]

4... Promise controller.... Sound card... NIC... and USB 2.0...

 

[Detselom]

Intel network card and sblive

 

[Pupdog5301]

I just have a TV Tuner.....I use every thing that's onboard......

 

[Megatomic]

All my PCI slots are empty. I love my Epox 8RDA+. :heart:

 

[Genx87]

Let me check.

None!

LAN, Sound, RAID, SATA controller all on MB. All I need is an AGP port.

 

[brunswickite]

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

 

[Rogozhin]

sound card

usp card

modem

extra fan header

 

[Poulsonator]

Just one for my sound card. Or two, I guess, if you count the slot my 9700 Sapphire UE takes up.

 

[McMadman]

sound
nic
promise card

could use onboard nic, but I've already got a decent nic so why bother?

 

[ProviaFan]

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:

 

[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.

 

[ProviaFan]

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.

Maybe the poll should be "what percent of your PCI slots are full" to compensate for people like you, ultimatebob.

 

[fr]

There is a thread about this in GH.

I use all 5 in my computer. If I don't like it or it doesn't work out for me, I won't buy it. There are alternatives.

 

[Peter]

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.

 

[KillaBong]

Don't need/use any in my main computer, but I have a lan card in my old box.

 

[Peter D]

Originally posted by: Megatomic
All my PCI slots are empty. I love my Epox 8RDA+. :heart:

=)

 

[kylebisme]

Originally posted by: McMadman
sound
nic
promise card

could use onboard nic, but I've already got a decent nic so why bother?

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.

 

[McMadman]

Originally posted by: TheSnowman

Originally posted by: McMadman
could use onboard nic, but I've already got a decent nic so why bother?

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.

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.

 

[Peter]

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).

 

[iam29a]

Blessed with an IT7. LAN/sound/USB2/1394b/RAID. Only the video card sitting in the AGP slot.

 

[McMadman]

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.

 

[Wurrmm]

lol...I just did the same kind of post in the general hardware yesterday. My Poll

 

[FoBoT]

nic and scsi