Questions Regarding PCI-E and PCI-X Slots

[aigomorla]

Well, i have an Intel L7250 board.

Sossoman setup. The board has really utter crap IGP. The thing lags in windows til no tomorrow. The IGP is a Rage XL chipset! WOOT L33T

Anyhow, i cant allocate more ram to it, and its very choppy on regular windows. So, here is my choices.

The board has 2 slots. 8x PCI-E and a PCI-X.

Can i use 1x PCI-E cards in these slots? or can i use a PCI in the PCI-X slot?

Help please! 😀

Heres the board slots:
http://i125.photobucket.com/al...aigomorla/IMG_1116.jpg

 

[Quiksilver]

PCI-X is generally backward-compatible with most cards based on the PCI 2.x[1] or later standard, meaning that, a PCI-X card can be installed in a PCI slot, provided it has the correct voltage keying for the slot and (if inserting into a 32-bit slot) nothing obstructs the overhanging part of the edge connector.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI-X

You can't use a PCI-Express card in the PCI-X slot though.

 

[aigomorla]

but i can use a PCI Card in that PCI-X?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16814133070

can i use that in the PCI-X slot is a better question

Or even better would be a non workstation solution like this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16814130289

will these cards work on that PCI-X?

 

[Quiksilver]

I would assume yes sames you can install PCI-X cards into PCI slots, but I don't know that for sure.

 

[aigomorla]

Originally posted by: Quiksilver
I would assume yes sames you can install PCI-X cards into PCI slots, but I don't know that for sure.

otherway around lol.

i need to install pci into pci-x 😛