• PCI and PCI-E slots dilemma. (Sound card and GPU)
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Hello everyone, I wanted to upgrade my soundcard from an Asus Xonar D1 to either a Sound Blaster Z or a Xonar Phoebus Solo. The problem is that my actual soundcard is pci-e, while the ones I want are just pci. My motherboard is an Asus p8z77-v pro, here in this picture you can see the slots it has: My GPU is actually in the top slot (in the manual it says if using only 1 GPU use the top slot), can I move it down to the white one or is it going to reduce the speed from 16x to 8x? [IMG]https://geizhals.at/p/798690.jpg[/IMG]
"The ones I want are just PCI" Erm, untrue. I'm not sure if you're getting confused here, but let me clarify things: Your Xonar D1 is a PCI card. Your potential new cards are PCI-e x1 cards. The new sound cards will fit in the first or third slot (going from top to bottom from your picture). Now I'm assuming slot 3 is blocked by your graphics card, which you've mentioned you put in slot 2, as you should. Slot 1 should be available to use for your new sound card.
Yes, Slot 1 should fit your sound card.
Starting from the top slot, a PCIe x1 card will work in slots 1, 2, 3, 5 and 7. Slots 4 and 6 are regular PCI slots and won't work with PCIe cards. But since you have a discrete GPU, slot 2 is used and slot 3 is probably blocked. But you can still use slots 1, 5 and 7.
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