[LAU] [off-list] Buying a new soundcard.

[Len Ovens]

On Tue, September 11, 2012 3:19 am, Julien Claassen wrote:
> Hello Arve!
>    For what it's worth: As far as I know, having a pci bridge listed,
> means,
> that it's part of the motherboard. Not sure, if pcie ports are part of
> that or
> if it is just a a few chips, which are there, because it's cheaper to have
> them, than to produce something entirely new. If you really don't see any
> pci
> ports as such, I wouldn't go for a pci card.
>    Take this with a big pinch of salt, until anyone can confirm or utterly
> deny
> it. :-)

Look at the mother board, if the slot is there its there, if not, there is
something on the MB that uses the pci IF... just as a lot of "on board"
stuff uses USB interfaces (webcams, SD ports etc) PCI and PCIe are
physically different, the PCIe is a lot smaller.


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Len Ovens
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