[PLUG] New Hardware Recommendations

[Galen Seitz]

Carla Schroder <carla at bratgrrl.com> wrote:

> -PCI comes in multiple flavors:
> 	
> 	3.3 volt
> 	5 volt
> 	PCI-Express
> 
> If you have the budget, go for PCI-E. This uses dedicated buses
> instead of a shared bus for all devices, so it's very fast, and it's
> backwards-compatible, so you can still use your old PCI adapters.
>  

PCI Express slots are not backwards compatible with any prior generation
stuff.  Perhaps you were thinking of PCI-X.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI-X

With the advent of PCI-Express, PCI-X is pretty much dead.  I doubt you
will find many motherboards that support PCI-X, particularly at the
consumer level.

PCI-Express motherboards typically have bridge chips that support
standard PCI slots. This is how they get backwards compatibility.

galen