2006-12-25 05:53:17 · 2 answers · asked by chris 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
Yes but the speed of your card will be slower if you plug it in a slot reserved for 1x,4x or 8x. Check your motherboard to see if you have a 16x slot. Here's a chart you can us to see the slots:
Table 3 shows the interoperability requirements of standard and low-profile PCI Express cards. A x1 card can be used in all four system board slots: x1, x4, x8, and x16. When a x1 card is inserted into a higher-bandwidth slot, the link layer negotiates the link down to the x1 data transfer rate.
Table 3. PCI Express Card Interoperability
PCI Express Implementationx1 Slot x4 Slotx8 Slot x16 Slot
x1 CardRequiredRequiredRequiredRequired
x4 CardNoRequiredAllowed Allowed
x8 CardNoAllowed*RequiredAllowed
x16 CardNoNoNoRequired
*These implementations will have an x8 connector on a wired x4 slot. This means that the slot will accept x8 cards, but run at x4 speeds.
2006-12-25 06:30:34 · answer #1 · answered by Ted B 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It has to be a PCI Express x16 slot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:PCIExpress.jpg
PCI Express slots (from top to bottom: x4, x16, x1 and x16), compared to a traditional 32-bit PCI slot (bottom)
2006-12-25 05:57:14 · answer #2 · answered by π² 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋