<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Nov 18, 2006, at 8:45 AM, Bill Gazsy wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BR><BR><DIV><SPAN class="gmail_quote">On 11/17/06, <B class="gmail_sendername">Brian Wood</B> <<A href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</A>> wrote:</SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <BR>On Nov 17, 2006, at 12:26 PM, <<A href="mailto:myth.tv@cox.net">myth.tv@cox.net</A>> <<A href="mailto:myth.tv@cox.net">myth.tv@cox.net</A>> wrote:<BR><BR>> In case someone is looking for a pci-e fx5200! <BR>> is this for real? I thought only the FX5300 comes in PCI-E.<BR>><BR>> <A href="http://www.buy.com/prod/">http://www.buy.com/prod/</A><BR>> PNY_Verto_GeForce_FX5200_256MB_DDR_PCI_Video_Card_S_Video_Dual_VGA/ <BR>> q/loc/58207/202505436.html?adid=17662<BR><BR><BR>Take a closer look. That seems to be a PCI card, not a PCI-E.<BR><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV>I saw that ad, too. It seems to have conflicting info on the page. The description states 'PCI Video Card', but under Features it states 'Slot Type: PCI-Express x 16' <BR></DIV><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>It's really unfortunate that different and incompatible interfaces have such similar names, and I am not at all sure it is not intentional.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>It reminds me of the "extended" vs. "expanded" memory systems many years ago.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Then there is a product with a large label proclaiming "DVD-COPY". Of course one thing that product will *not* do is copy a DVD, I wonder how many folks have been duped into buying that one ?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>It's marketing, nothing else.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>But I think the card in question is in fact a PCI card, based on the picture on the box and the price, if not much else :-) I would of course be happy to be proved wrong on this.</DIV><BR></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>