Hi all,
Hopefully just a quickie - a lot of motherboards advertise PCI-E x16 for graphics usage, but I am planning to buy a PCI-E x8 RAID card. Can I use the x16 slot for this?
As background, I'm planning as lower power a setup as possible (the many drives will offset this somewhat I guess), so an Asus N4L-VM i945G S479 with a Yonah T2400 is currently favourite, with SATA RAID being provided by an Areca card.
Thanks in advance...
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Hopefully just a quickie - a lot of motherboards advertise PCI-E x16 for graphics usage, but I am planning to buy a PCI-E x8 RAID card. Can I use the x16 slot for this?
As background, I'm planning as lower power a setup as possible (the many drives will offset this somewhat I guess), so an Asus N4L-VM i945G S479 with a Yonah T2400 is currently favourite, with SATA RAID being provided by an Areca card.
ASUS N4L-VM DH i945G, S479, PCI-E (x16), DDR2 667, SATA II, SATA RAID, uATX
1 x PCI-Express (x1)
1 x PCI-Express (x16 Graphics)
1 x PCI-Express (x1)
1 x PCI-Express (x16 Graphics)
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