Well, my motherboard is this, so I guess I'm safe: http://www.msi.com/product/mb/P35-Neo.html#/?div=Basic On 11 September 2012 23:19, Len Ovens <len@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, September 11, 2012 3:19 am, Julien Claassen wrote: >> Hello Arve! >> For what it's worth: As far as I know, having a pci bridge listed, >> means, >> that it's part of the motherboard. Not sure, if pcie ports are part of >> that or >> if it is just a a few chips, which are there, because it's cheaper to have >> them, than to produce something entirely new. If you really don't see any >> pci >> ports as such, I wouldn't go for a pci card. >> Take this with a big pinch of salt, until anyone can confirm or utterly >> deny >> it. :-) > > Look at the mother board, if the slot is there its there, if not, there is > something on the MB that uses the pci IF... just as a lot of "on board" > stuff uses USB interfaces (webcams, SD ports etc) PCI and PCIe are > physically different, the PCIe is a lot smaller. > > > -- > Len Ovens > www.OvenWerks.net > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
