Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 20:36:22 -0800 From: C Gray <frankfenderbender@council124.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: followup: anyone use different PCI Express card & slot #s? Message-ID: <0D88BD2A-7DD3-4EB8-A33E-BEB18CE5122A@council124.org> In-Reply-To: <AC2031C8-332D-48CB-A442-0225B872790A@council124.org> References: <8F08E935-33A8-4B5F-9057-51FAD51DA97D@council124.org> <20180201121251.95e345cf.freebsd@edvax.de> <09DEB81A-3DC1-4147-9249-0497C89F429B@council124.org> <69060D2E-8ED1-4BDB-8801-2BA29F15C632@council124.org> <AC2031C8-332D-48CB-A442-0225B872790A@council124.org>
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This opens up lots of short-term solutions to my Dell PowerEdge T300, =
which came w/o a sound card.
Nonetheless, wasting slots is a bit foolish, so I am still searching for =
an x4 sound card that is supported=20
by FreeBSD drivers. Along the way, I am finding many imaginative tips =
such as these two....
Q: I have a PCI Express 4x slot on my Asus Crosshair =
motherboard.=20
It is open ended, but there are capacitors directly behind =
it blocking any 16x cards.=20
So, what are PCI Express 4x slots for? What would I put =
there?
A: The PCI Express 4X connector has 64 pins and is intended to =
be used on servers,=20
but not limited to servers:
- PCIe x1 card in a PCIe x16 slot will run at PCIe x1 =
speeds
- PCIe x16 card in a PCIe x16 slot will run at PCIe x16 =
speed.
- PCIe cards are all backwards compatible, as in a x1, =
x2, x4, x8 cards will all work in a PCIe x16 slot
- x1, x2, x4 will all work in a PCIe x8/x16 slot
- x1, x2 will all work in a PCIe x4/x8/x16 slot
- x1 will all work in a PCIe x2/x4/x8/x16 slot
-- from "What are PCI Express 4x slots made for?" - by Dougx1317 =
(June 9, 2009)
=
<http://tomshardware.com/forum/260412-30-what-express-slots-made>;
Q: What can you do with a PCI Express x4 slot?
A: Except for the most powerful of video cards, you can do =
pretty much everything with=20
an x4 slot, and without any adapters, as well.
Plenty of boards with x4 slots have them open ended, so a =
x16 card will fit just fine=20
(and work at x4). So HDTV tuners, RAID controllers, cards =
for PhysX, video cards to=20
drive more monitors, sound cards, 10Gbit Ethernet (don't ask =
me why, though...lol)....
-- from "What can you do with a PCI Express x4 slot?" - by =
Yukikaze (Sep 24, 2008)
=
<https://techpowerup.com/forums/threads/what-can-you-do-with-a-pci-express=
-x4-slot.90099/>
Anyone found a affordable/non-cloned//FreeBSD-supported sound board =
solution for a server=20
running the latest LTS TrueOS... utilizing PCIe x4/x4/x8/x16 (with no =
x1) slots?
thanks,
chris gray
frankfenderbender@council124.org
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