PCI-E Sound Card?

teamhex

teamhex

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Alright iv searched Hi and low..im sure someones asked this...but do they make PCI-E sound cards. Someone told me that pci-e isnt backwards compatable.
 
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No, PCI is not compatible with PCI Express. They use completely different connections.

As for PCI Express sound cards, there is no benefit to using one over standard PCI. Don't even consider it unless you have run out of PCI slots...

Aaaand... I just found this :shock:
As far as PCI Express (PCIe) is concerned, which is the next bus, what we found is that the performance of PCIe is truly bad for audio. We are seeing four times degradation on the bus for audio.

PCIe is designed for graphics and high data transfer, but audio sends very small packets and the overhead can be very big! Moving the data across PCIe is much, much higher than PCI. So what we have to do is go back to the drawing board and work on the transport part of the chip and re-design it to add more silicon to overcome some of the problems we had with PCIe. So for us to come up with a PCIe solution is going to take a while because we have to overcome the problems we're facing with that bus.
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i dont think i have any pci slots...ill have to look at my mother board but they look like PCI-E to me
 
ya i just looked the specs up i have one..sorry for posting this...prob should have done a bit more research
 
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