On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Claude Gélinas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:claude@phyto.qc.ca">claude@phyto.qc.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><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 free space to be able to add a PVR1600 card but the only PCI<br>
slot available is blocked by my video card which is a nvidia 9800 GT. My<br>
Mb is an asus M3A32-MVP with 4 PCI-e 16x slot. Could I put my video card<br>
in PCI-e slot #3 to free the PCI slot that I need<br>
<br></blockquote></div><br>As long you are only using 1 video card I don't think it will matter what slot you put it in. When you start putting multiple videocards in for SLI or Crossfire then some of the slots will usually run at x8 instead of the full x16. So even though you have 4 x16 slots you can't use all four at x16 at the same time. Your motherboards specs say:<br>
<br>4 x PCIe x16 with ATI CrossFireX™ support, @ dual x16; tripple x16 / x8 / x8; or quad x8 modes <br><br>You can read your manual to double check all this, or you can just try it out and see if it works.<br><br><br>