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America's Army => General Chat => Topic started by: zoxee on Tuesday, September 11, 2012, 00:44:54 AM
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Sup Guys...
I recently bought a new Board for my 3960X CPU, which has 2 x PCIe x16 and 2 x PCI 2.0.
As the onboard sound solution from Realtek is a real piece of crap, i thought to myself
maybe i could install my old X-FI and recover my XP sound with the x64.bat file.
But... i noticed in the manual that the X-FI needs at least a PCI port revision 2.1 to function
properly. I'm afraid that this could lead to conflicts, so my question is simple :
Does somebody have experience with that matter, tried the above to see if it works or not,
any feedback would be very welcome because otherwise, i will have to spend some cash
which i don't have atm on an external USB solution of creative labs or similar :/
thanks in advance for your input ;)
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no one ??
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Maybe post it Spankys new site, he seems an expert in these stuff and he probably won't refuse to have some new posts there
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Your Pci-e 2.1 card will work in your Pci-e x16 slot. Only thing is you will loose the benefit of the increased bandwidth a Pci-e 2.1 slot would have given you.
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Maybe post it Spankys new site, he seems an expert in these stuff and he probably won't refuse to have some new posts there
What's the adress aleschko pls ?
Your Pci-e 2.1 card will work in your Pci-e x16 slot. Only thing is you will loose the benefit of the increased bandwidth a Pci-e 2.1 slot would have given you.
hmm.. As i said, my Sound card is a PCI 2.1 card, not a PCIe...
So would the card work in a PCI 2.0 slot ?
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What's the adress aleschko pls ?
http://www.gamingrevised.com/
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What's the adress aleschko pls ?
hmm.. As i said, my Sound card is a PCI 2.1 card, not a PCIe...
So would the card work in a PCI 2.0 slot ?
did u already tried????????? if not, then try and tell US
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What's the adress aleschko pls ?
hmm.. As i said, my Sound card is a PCI 2.1 card, not a PCIe...
So would the card work in a PCI 2.0 slot ?
Sorry I read it wrong, but the same holds true that the PCI 2.1 is backwards compatible with PCI 2.0
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Sorry I read it wrong, but the same holds true that the PCI 2.1 is backwards compatible with PCI 2.0
Backward compatible in which direction ?
You mean that my Soundcard 2.1 should function on my PCI 2.0 slot,
or rather that a PCI 2.0 Card should function on a PCI 2.1 slot ?
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did u already tried????????? if not, then try and tell US
Bro, i post here exactly before "trying" myself to avoid messing up the config and
starting getting BSOD's all over the place...
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Zoxee it's compatible, just install it and you won't have any issues. Just remember that if you have Win7 you need to download all drivers from Creative site since those on the CD shouldn't be compatible...
I believe you are making confusion with PCI and PCI-Express, PCI 2.0 comes since 1993 and PCI 2.1 since 1995...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conventional_PCI
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I believe you are making confusion with PCI and PCI-Express, PCI 2.0 comes since 1993 and PCI 2.1 since 1995...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conventional_PCI
Thanks Sergio, but what do you mean i'm confusing ?
You're gonna laught, but i have played until last month with the same PC
that i played on in 2005, a vapochill-cooled http://www.3dvelocity.com/reviews/fx57/fx57.htm (http://www.3dvelocity.com/reviews/fx57/fx57.htm)
overclocked at 3381 Ghz and running on a http://www.msi.com/product/mb/K8N-Neo4-Platinum--PCB-1-0-.html#/?div=Detail (http://www.msi.com/product/mb/K8N-Neo4-Platinum--PCB-1-0-.html#/?div=Detail) with 4GB of Ram...
This board has Four 32-bit v2.3 Master PCI bus slots, and one of them was running my
X-FI ExtremeGamer PCI 2.1 which is obviously compatible.
But my brand new board hast Four PCI 2.0 slots. There's no confusion here,
so you are sure it is still compatible Sergio ? Thanks for answering once more ;)
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<3 <3
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It is, just install it m8 :)
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It is, just install it m8 :)
love ya thx :P
btw, i already have 3 active sound devices in the control panel which are :
1. ATI HDMI Audio (unplugged)
2. Intel (R) Display Audio
3. Realtek High Definition Audio
The Realtek one is the on-board sound chip, i can deactivate it in the bios,
but should i disable the other two also before proceeding with install ?
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ATI HDMI Audio is from you graphic card, in case you wanna connect it to a TV or another Monitor using the port HDMI, no need to disable it...
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ATI HDMI Audio is from you graphic card, in case you wanna connect it to a TV or another Monitor using the port HDMI, no need to disable it...
Yeah but don't those 3 devices already fill IRQ Ports ?
Maybe there isn't one available for my card...
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M8, just install it, lol...
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M8, just install it, lol...
I did... works perfekt, thanks again m8 ;)
I just wanted to be sure, the damn PC cost me $2500 lol...
i7-3960x
64 GB ram
2 x HD 7970
1300 W PS
2 x 256GB SSD raid
was really time i upgraded ^^
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Well that's way too much of what you need. With 1000 euros you would get an awesome computer also, you won't take advantage of that for now and by the time you could it will be so much cheaper... But hey, it's your money ;)
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Maybe so, but upgrading from :
- a single core with 1MB L3 to a six core with 15MB L3
- 4GB DDR1 to 64 GB DDR3
- HD 5450 1GB to 2 x HD 7970 with 4GB
- a hard drive with 7200 r/m to a SSD raid
is like you get asleep and wake up in the 22nd century :D :D
wtf, W7 load time 6 sec and a 3DMark score around 30000,
it's just a pleasure to use the PC and i spend a lot in front of it
for my job (i have home office as a chartered financial accountant /controller)
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You could have bought a $1500 computer and sent the other $ my way, I wouldn't have minded
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You could have bought a $1500 computer and sent the other $ my way, I wouldn't have minded
I saved this money over 6 years, i had to spend it all at once :D