Question on PCI + PCI-E slots on Gigabyte GA_P35_DS4

MumboJumbo · 12 Jul 2007 at 21:25

Hey, i was thinking about getting this boardGigabyte GA_P35_DS4 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
. But then my friend asked me where the sound card goes. We are both still learning about these things you see. It says 2xPci-e slots. But does the sound card go in one of them? If so, then how can you use cross fire? Also, i was wondering how many PCI slots it also has as iit doesn't say.

If anyone could do general annotating on the picture of the board that would be a real help! Thanks.

Thanks.

:EDIT: After looking at the sound cards and the graphic cards. I see now they are different sixzd PCI-E cards. But, it doesn't tell me what sizes i get on that board?

Im presuming ill get enough differnt ones to plug in everything though.

Topitoff · 12 Jul 2007 at 21:33

If it's a normal PCI sound card it goes in one of the 2 white slots at the bottom of the mobo.

MumboJumbo · 12 Jul 2007 at 21:35

I see, ... but i only see one white slot at the bottem and it well... looks like its got small dividers like its for a power supply cable instead?

Indy500 · 12 Jul 2007 at 21:37

No. The PCI slots have a single notch. They are to the far left in the picture.

C64 · 12 Jul 2007 at 21:38

The 2 slots next to the left of the orange pci express slot are the pci slots.

Topitoff · 12 Jul 2007 at 21:38

When I say the bottom I mean the bottom when installed in the PC - ie at the extreme left in the picture.

If the card is a PCI-e sound card it can go in the small brown slots between the orange and blue PCI-e graphics slots that go vertically on the pic

MumboJumbo · 13 Jul 2007 at 01:02

aww i see, so the blue slot and the orange slot would be the PCI-E x 16s?

C64 · 13 Jul 2007 at 01:58

yes but more likely the blue is 16x the orange is 4x

Darg · 13 Jul 2007 at 11:23

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MumboJumbo · 13 Jul 2007 at 13:34

Thanks so much

8 sata ports is a lot lol.

Im worried now though, im going to have to have a look at my current pc inside because im going to be using some of the parts out of it for my new build. But its quite old and i beleive the hard drives and optical drives will be IDE. I dont think there is enough slots in the board for three optical drives and a hard drive which are probably all IDE.

Darg · 13 Jul 2007 at 16:06

If you don't want to switch them to SATA right now then your best bet is the Asus P5N-E Sli 650i board. It's what I got as I had 3xIDE HDDs and 1xIDE DVD drive. It has 2 IDE ports so enough for all 4 drives.

MumboJumbo · 13 Jul 2007 at 17:17

yeah i know. But i want to go down the P35 board way really.

I gues ill have to buy either a new CD drive or a new Hard drive and plug one of them in the IDE slot. They will all eventualy be upgraded. its just extra costs i didn't want to pay just yet.

Btw, would you say that P35 motherboard is a good overclocker? i was told it was, which is one of the reasons id liek to buy it. Secondly the DDR3 and support for the new CPU chips.

MumboJumbo · 13 Jul 2007 at 18:19

Also, it says the bios is "DualBIOS" ive seen quadbios as well. Does that mean that i should get the motherboard with quadbios as im going to be using a quad core?