PCI card, PCI Express x1, PCI Express x16?

Question

wat is the difference between PCI card, PCI Express x1, PCI Express x16

Answer 1

pci vs pci-e x1, the pci-e x1 is about double speed, through bother are very limited in video cards, typically the Radeon X1300 is the fastest for either slot. Roughly the same speed. As for the PCI-E x16, allows the fastest transfers of video cards on the market.

Answer 2

Regular 32-bit PCI slots are what you'll find in most PCs built within the last 10 years. However PCI is slowly being replaced with PCI Express. New motherboards ship with both PCI and PCIe, but I wouldn't be suprised to see PCI completely replaced over the next few years. PCI Express is not only for video cards, the video card vendors were just the first to adopt it. You can get PCIe raid cards, network cards, video cards etc. The primary difference between PCI and PCIe is the peak bandwidth

PCI = 133 MB/s (32-bit 33mhz)
PCIe x1 = .5 GB/s
PCIe x4 = 2 GB/s
PCIe x8 = 4 GB/s
PCI e x16 = 8 GB/s

Answer 3

Defintely PCI wont' work so if anything go PCI X1 if not PCI X16

Answer 4

PCI card - fast, PCI Express x1 - faster, PCI Express x16 - fastest
All of them have different sockets.

PCI Express x16 used for connecting graphic cards, and the rest of PCI for other add ons.

Answer 5

The name PCI just happened to be on PCI Express because the standards was established by the same consortium.

PCI is very slow by today's standard, it had about half of 1x speed, that is speed I think the original AGP ran at, PCI-E is obviously a different slot type and different bus. x16 is very fast in comparison.

Answer 6

everyone can have a PCI card but PCI express is not on all computers and its beter then PCI especially on graphics cards