pcie into pci express

johnny sublime · 5 Apr 2010 at 02:30

is it possible to put a pci e sound card into a pci express slot

manic_man · 5 Apr 2010 at 03:02

Assuming you don't mean PCI-X (and I can't imagine you do), then a PCI-E soundcard is a PCI Express card.

Normally they are 1x PCI-E so have very small connectors, most modern PCI Express capable motherboards will have 1 or 2 16x PCI-E slots (large ones for the graphics card(s)) and and a couple of much smaller PCI-E 1x slots. Either would be fine for a 1x card.

See here for further PCI Express goodness: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express

=VTA=MANFACE · 5 Apr 2010 at 10:01

Yes, i wanted to know this too.... My Asus Xonar Essence STX Sound Card will fit and work ok in a PCI E will fit in and work in a PCI-E X8 slot ?

Marsman · 5 Apr 2010 at 12:19

Yep, all Xonar PCIe cards will work in any PCIe slot. 1x 4x 8x 16x.

C64 · 5 Apr 2010 at 16:34

Yup use my dx in secondary graphics slot.

johnny sublime · 5 Apr 2010 at 17:20

so a sound card in a graphics card slot is possible

cmndr_andi · 5 Apr 2010 at 17:27

johnny sublime said:
so a sound card in a graphics card slot is possible

Yea, I have my ASUS Xonar D2X sound card sitting in my 3rd full size PCI-E slot right now - works great. All PCIe slots can accommodate PCIe cards of the same or smaller type.

=VTA=MANFACE · 6 Apr 2010 at 06:18

Thanks for the answers.

Wildego · 7 Apr 2010 at 20:15

I also wondered this and now I can stop my xonar D2X being fried by my 5970! Cheers

paradigm · 7 Apr 2010 at 22:39

johnny sublime said:
so a sound card in a graphics card slot is possible

There is no such thing as "a graphics card slot"

PCIe is PCIe, regardless of lane count.

CAPTAINBUMFLUFF · 7 Apr 2010 at 22:47

so a pci e sound card would fit in x16 pci express slot even though it would be wobbly?

Marsman · 7 Apr 2010 at 23:28

Wobbly? Why would it wobble? x16 slot is only bigger in length, not width, so the card will not wobble. It is secured at the bracket also, by either a screw or some contraption fixing some case manufacturers like to use.

Well Splattered · 8 Apr 2010 at 00:29

Marsman said:
Yep, all Xonar PCIe cards will work in any PCIe slot. 1x 4x 8x 16x.

You say this, but my Xonar hates being in my second x16 slot. It just will not work.

Marsman · 8 Apr 2010 at 02:17

Asus state all Xonar's will work in any PCIe slot. It should say, it should work.

Rroff · 8 Apr 2010 at 02:28

You can (with slight modification to the socket) fit a graphics card in a 1x PCI-e slot and it will work - tho performance can suffer massively.