In need of decent PCI-E card

LMR

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Any recommendation? I ran out of PCI slots and I'd like to utilize these PCI-E slots..

Thanks in advance!
 

Zepper

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Neither of those need the thruput of PCI-e, so it's unlikely you'll find one.

Perhaps you could get one of those adapter cards that makes two PCI slots out of one.

.bh.
 

shortylickens

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Damn. Leet beat me to helping a newb.

The only other thing I can think of is, exactly how many slots do you have available and how are they being used?
We may be able to figure something out.

Also, I do believe I've seen multi-port gigabit ethernet adapters of a PCI-E variety. Obviously not in wireless format. Does it have to be wireless?
 

Madwand1

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You can get single port GbE PCIe adapters, and these do perform better than PCI ones, although it will often take good drives / RAID (on an internal LAN of course) to see the difference. (But if you have a crowded PCI bus, esp. with an add-on storage controller -- then the difference might be easily noticable.)

Another option would be USB -- USB wireless would probably make more sense than PCI / PCIe, and USB sound is also widely available.