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To clarify, I'm talking about the on-board PCI slots on the
motherboard, not an add-on PCI-over-something adapter.<br>
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For example, the below board, which is one I was looking at, is a
sandybridge H67 chipset board, with 3 onboard PCI slots.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/motherboards/desktop-motherboards/desktop-board-dh67cl.html">http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/motherboards/desktop-motherboards/desktop-board-dh67cl.html</a><br>
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The 'consumer' sandy-bridge chipsets H61/H67/P67/Z68 do not have PCI
'built in', only PCIe, so those 3 PCI slots on this board are driven
by an ITE8892E PCIe-to-PCI bridge chip, which is fed from one of the
PCIEx1 lanes out of the H67 PCH.<br>
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Same story with any board with the aforementioned sandy-bridge
chipsets, with Gigabyte also seeming to use the ITE8892E, Asus using
the ASM1083, and other mobo vendors seeming to use one of these two
bridge chips.<br>
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I haven't found any one good summary of this issue online to point
to, but a search for 'sandy bridge pci' , over half the first page
results are about this issue. It seems like it is more noticed by
users of high end audio cards, and some specialized interface cards.
It basically seems like the PCI slots driven by these bridge chips
are not up to the same 'performance / standard' as earlier chipsets.<br>
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So, the intent of my original question is to figure if this is an
issue, or a non-issue for PCI capture cards, on these motherboards.
The fact that I have found few references online of capture card
woes with sandy-bridge seems positive, but I was just wanting to
make sure. Forewarned is forearmed, etc, etc.<br>
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So, is anybody is happily (or unhappily) using PCI capture cards on
a Intel H61/H67/P67/Z68 based (sandy-bridge) motherboard?<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Simon<br>
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