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

[Arve Barsnes]

Well, my motherboard is this, so I guess I'm safe:
http://www.msi.com/product/mb/P35-Neo.html#/?div=Basic

On 11 September 2012 23:19, Len Ovens <len at ovenwerks.net> wrote:
>
> 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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