Suggested use for 3 pci slots.

[docp]

As title says,
What would be use for those three pci slots and one pci express slot at 4x ?

Thanks.

 

[_Rick_]

PBX host card for POTS at home and VoIP to the outside, ISDN client card for fax, and two RAID controllers to tape all the calls!

Of course, buying a PCI card now will lock you down in the future, because you'll always need to buy a board with PCI slots, to carry over those cards. But PCI is pretty much dead, so you deliberately limit your available choice of mainboards.

Just leave those slots free, and be happy you won't run out of interrupt bandwidth.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Sound card, firewire, cheap SATA controller, GPIB interface, instrumental control board, additional USB ports, etc.

Lots of uses.

 

[docp]

Its for my two yrs. old board so not gonna be locked in.

Its atx board.

Has one classic pci e x16 slot which is taken over by 6850.
Its damn dual slot so it covered one of those small pci e x1.

Second slot pci e x1 slot , I used it for installing pulled mini pci e wireless card from my laptop.

Out of three pci, I ended up using one for tv tuner card.

I really wanted to add those pci e to usb 3 media dashboards for card reader and front usb 3 ports but that pci e slot is covered by gfx card ( his amd 6850 )

What can I do for this media dashboard thing ?

Thanks.

 

[docp]

Need usb 3 guys.
Bored of usb2 speed .
Help me pls.

 

[nightspydk]

That should be possible. In theory PCIe is much faster that usb (3,0).

If you cannot fit it in there you are bugged and to be honest I haven't gone down that road. Don't see the probelm tho.

 

[jkauff]

You could invest in an M-Audio Audiophile 192 sound card. I love mine so much I made sure my new mb had at least one PCI slot. There are still lots of PCI video capture/TV cards out there for not much money.

 

[crashtech]

I think the theory is to accommodate those who already have legacy devices; in 2013 there is no real other use for such a configuration.

 

[RU482]

this post reminds me why I love miniITX

 

[crashtech]

Well, I still like ATX because it is roomy and you most likely get 4 RAM slots. I still remember the days when ISA slots were included on mobos to accommodate legacy devices, this is not too different. It'll pass.

 

[docp]

Thanks guys.

I will get pci audio card.
Sounds good.

Its assembled in 2011 and hence old scholl but i love this system.
It flies with ssd so dont feel like upgrading whole system.

 

[tweakboy]

My Audio Card. Thank you PCI !!!