PCI cards in PCI-X slots

is it possible to stick a PCI card into a 64-bit PCI-X slot...? i heard
it was as long as the card is 3.3V compatible.

i'd be interested in putting a sound blaster audigy2 platinum into the
tyan S2895 when it arrives, unfortunately i'm not sure on the sound
blaster's voltage specs... that tyan mobo actually has a PCI slot but
its in an aweful place between the 2 graphics cards.

one more thing i also heard that running a 33MHz PCI card in a PCI-X
slot like this would downgrade the performance of other slots... is this
true or myth...? i know the PCI-X slots are on independent buses so
wouldn't have thought it would matter.

any info apprec.
chers.

On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 09:16:35 +1200, gimp wrote:

is it possible to stick a PCI card into a 64-bit PCI-X slot...? i heard
it was as long as the card is 3.3V compatible.

This is correct, by rule.

i'd be interested in putting a sound blaster audigy2 platinum into the
tyan S2895 when it arrives, unfortunately i'm not sure on the sound
blaster's voltage specs... that tyan mobo actually has a PCI slot but
its in an aweful place between the 2 graphics cards.

one more thing i also heard that running a 33MHz PCI card in a PCI-X
slot like this would downgrade the performance of other slots... is this
true or myth?

True. The bus is ruled by the least capable connected agent.

i know the PCI-X slots are on independent buses so
wouldn't have thought it would matter.

Again, *the bus* is ruled by the least capable connected agent.

What you do to one bus should not have any affect on a different bus.

/daytripper