How does PCI-E work?

[pwnedbyryan]

I've built my own comp and know quite a bit about computers but have never messed with PCI-E. I'm not quite as interested in HOW it works, as I'm more interested in what a 16X slot looks like, whether you can use PCI cards in a PCI-E slot, and how the different slots look and how they are used. Any info...(especially a diagram!) would be extremely helpful. I'm building a comp for my girlfriend and I'd like to know as much about PCI-E stuff as I can, thanks a ton.

Ryan

 

[pat]

So you want to impress your GF with stuff that others told you? no way! use google, and impress her with the research you did to bring her the best..

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[pwnedbyryan]

Or, you could just tell me.

 

[pat]

No, I'll tell your GF instead..

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[pat]

Oh!! He got mumps!!!

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[Crashman]

Looks like PCI to the OS, has 250MB/s per pathway, in both directions at once (PCI only has 133MB/s, shared up and down). Runs at 100MHz, slots are completely different.

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