<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/12/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Yan Seiner</b> <<a href="mailto:yan@seiner.com">yan@seiner.com</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;">
I need to replace a failed video card...<br><br>As I have a shortage of slots, I'd like to use a pcie x1 card (not x16)<br>card....<br><br>The only nvidia based one I've found is this one:<br><br><a href="http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/1045/index.html">
http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/1045/index.html</a><br><br>Anyone have any experience with this, or any other, x1 video card?<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>--Yan<br></blockquote></div><br>Actually you could take any PCI-E x16 and convert it into a PCI-E x1 card with out much trouble. Just physically cut off the pins for PCI-E channel 2-16, leaving only the pins for PCI-E channel 1 should work.
<br><br>I assume you motherboard does have a PCI-E x16 slot. Are you using it for something else?<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>_____________<br>Ryan Patterson