MSI NEO4 Platinum two pci-e graphics cards?

[imported_scoobydoo]

I have a MSI NEO4 Platinum motherboard and it's currently using a X300 grpahics card (rubbish I know, but I don't game). Anyway, I've got two LCD monitors arriving soon and I would like to run both using DVI. My X300 has 1 DVI output and 1 VGA output.

I noticed in the manual that the motherboard has another PCI-E slot, one that is 4x, instead of 16x. My question is if it's possible to put another graphics card into there?

I don't really want to buy another graphics card just for havaing 2 DVI outputs on 1 card.

Thanks

 

[imported_Kensai]

It might be possible. I believe MSI designed the x4 connector to accept x16 cards too. Try it out and tell us.

 

[imported_scoobydoo]

Well, that's the thing, I don't want to go and buy another graphics card only to find that it won't work! Someone here must know already!

 

[imported_scoobydoo]

Also, I've just been looking around and looking at all PCI-E grpahics cards, it seems like they won't physically fit into the other PCI-E slot o the MSI NEO4 Platinum...

I've seen a couple of reviews saying that they have put two grphics cards in such a configuration, but how are they putting the cards into the slot, there is only one 'notch' on the graphics card itself, and it seems too long to fit into the PCI-E x4 slot. Is there a convertor or are there specific PCI-E x4 graphics cards?

 

[imported_scoobydoo]

Ok, my mistake, I've just looked at some hi-res pictures of the motherboard and I can see that on the PCI-E x4 slot, the end is cut out, so you can stick a PCI-E x16 card in there ok. (I'm away from my computer at the moment, I was wondering just how they were sticking a PCI-E x16 card into that small x4 slot..)

Looks like I'll be getting another card and trying it out sometime. I'll update this if I go ahead with this with the results.