Can I Run a PCI-E x16 Card in a PCI-E x1 Slot?

I've got an Asus P5GD1 motherboard that is configured with 3 PCI, 3 PCI-E x1, and 1 PCI-E x16 slots. The x16 slot already has a GeForce 8800GT video card in it that I would like to keep. But I also have a GeForce 8500GT video card that I would like to add into the box. The 8500GT is an x16 card -- could I fit it (and will it run) in a x1 slot? Or do I need to buy a PCI video card and fit into one of the PCI slots instead?

 

On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 16:05:13 -0500, Rick wrote:

Nasty case of non line wrapping you have.

Run or fit, 2 very different things.

Online manuals would help you, mobo compatablity for the sockets and
graphics card for min requirement / possible performance issues.

Providing URLs to manuals would help even just to be more encouraging in
helping instead of searching.

A smaller PCIe card will fit into a larger slot. Unless you have an open
ended slot a longer card will not fit.

The PCIe spec means the card figures out the best connection.

Me

 

Rick wrote:
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5512
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Don't use OE's QP QuotedPrintable in 'mixed company' -- where other
people are using other newsagents. Typically one agent's QP, especially
OE's, is not compatible with anything else.

Change configuration in: OE/ Tools/ Options/ Send tab - News Sending
Format (plaintext is checked) - click Plain Text Settings button -
checked MIME - use its menu to select 'Encode text using' - None (not
Quoted Printable). Also your wrap should be something around 72-74.

 

For once (well, ENOUGH to follow-up positively instead of my
usual "you're right but it's hopeless...") I'm with you this
time. I HATE idiots who don't use wordwrap. And I am SO sick of
getting 20K emails with text followed by 19.5 K of html. Oh, the
humanity!

 

Actually, Rick's message is 'sorta' wrapped -- but how the EOLs are
handled is unpredictable/variable by various newsagents -- and also
different between the different v. of OE. If you look at his message
source, you will see that the (otherwise normal chars/line) wrapping
involves EOLs with =

Depending on how your newsagent handles that, it might wrap to your
window's edge; and then depending on how your newsagent handles
*that* -- then when you reply you might get cite marks and you might not.
For example, I just checked it with KNode which handles the message OK.
The lines wrap to the edge of the window when reading, and then the cite
marks work OK - standard wrapping and line by line cite marks - when
quoting.

Depending on your mailuser agent and your OS, you should be dealing with
that very carefully. I recall that your OS is W98; if your mailuser
agent were OE, then it is using a very old IE rendering engine, that from
IE6SP1 at the newest.

That combination makes for a very scary insecurity potential; so you
shouldn't be opening and rendering, or even previewing and rendering any
html mail (without inspecting the message source first) if you have that
combination.

 

Because of all the awful annoyances I have been having with
Opera AND Firefox 2 (I can NOT believe there are 20,000 text
editors but only about 10 browsers, *all* unsatisfactory in one
way or another) I am actually beginning to consider using IE -
whichever ver. would work on 98SELite - *if* I can figure out a
way to make it safe. I never thought it would come to this, but
I guess you can't fight World Hall.

But I'll be //damned// if I ever use OE or whatever it's called
now.

Since I stopped using the old Eudora about 6-8 years ago (IIRC)
I have been using nPop - it's a fantastic little mail program.
200KB of genius. Only accepts text and attachments. Connects to
a gmail acct INSTANTLY via POP3/smtp. Nice of the ghoulglers to
allow for that.

And Xnews rules and shall continue to do so, it seems forever.
The end of Usenet is nearing.

Cheers.

 

Damn forgot the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express

 

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Note that some x1 slots are "open" in the back, if so, then it's
possible to insert a card that expects more lanes, most cards+drivers
will work (or at least, if the follow the spec, they will)

 

If that were possible, (I'm leery of that info even after reading the
link, and timing skew), the transfer rate of the x1 slot would be 1/4
of the x16 slot.

If he were to SLI the video cards together - the results could run a
gauntlet of problems.