Question on NIC card and shuttle system

[thecoffeeguy]

hey all.
I seem to be having a brain lapse today.
Long story short.
I have this shuttle box:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16856101117

I use it for my home ESXi lab.
It currently has one onboard NIC and I bought this NIC card to install in the system to give me two more NIC's:

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/network-adapters/gigabit-network-adapters/pro-1000-pt-dp.html

Now, I need a few more NICs now with my lab growing, so I was looking for a 4 port NIC and came across these NICs and wanted to see if they will work with that shuttle system:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...24%24%24%24%24

Just trying to clarify one of those will work.

I appreciate the help.

Cheers,

TCG

 

[azazel1024]

You'll probably need to contact Shuttle to ask at a guess. The description on Newegg lists the 16x slot as (PEG, for graphics cards only). I've never personally see a x16 slot only work with video cards...but that seems to be what it is indicating.

If that is actually the case, no it won't work. If the 16x slot will take other PCI-e cards, so long as you don't need that slot for a video card, yes it'll work.

 

[thecoffeeguy]

You'll probably need to contact Shuttle to ask at a guess. The description on Newegg lists the 16x slot as (PEG, for graphics cards only). I've never personally see a x16 slot only work with video cards...but that seems to be what it is indicating.

If that is actually the case, no it won't work. If the 16x slot will take other PCI-e cards, so long as you don't need that slot for a video card, yes it'll work.

Thanks azazel.
Kinda what I was thinking.

On a side note, if i remove that 2 port Intel NIC card out of the PCIe slot and replace it with the 4 port Intel NIC card (which is PCIe 2.0), that should still work correct? 2.0 is backwards compatible?

Thanks.

TCG

 

[azazel1024]

Yeah, it'll work. Only issue you might encounter is, what is the 4 port?

If it is going in a 1x slot and is a 1x card, you can't come close to approaching max bandwidth of all of the ports. Quad port full duplex is 8Gbps and PCI-e 2.0 1x is only 4Gbps max (with overhead something like 3.6Gbps).

 

[XavierMace]

I've never heard of a PCIe slot that only works for video cards. Not even sure how that would be possible.

Also, do yourself a favor and buy a used on one eBay for $100. No shortage of OEM Intel or HP/Dell rebrands for that price.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

I have an old MSI board with a PCI-e x16 slot that won't allow the computer to boot if anything other than a graphics card is in there.