Poll: what's in your pciex1 slot?

[ShrimpBrime]

For all those 3 games lol? Or two? Mirrors edge is not available anymore

Well multiply 3 by 20 perhaps you'd be getting closer to an accurate game count.... But w/e.
Here's a few titles I've played using Physx. Honestly some with not the greatest results. Some worked just fine and looked great.

3 Batman titles.
2 Tom Clancy Ghost recon titles.
All the way back to UT3 physx map pack.
America's Army.
3 Assassins Creed titles.
Hawken, Which I really enjoyed this one myself.
BorderLands.
2 at least Metro Titles that I know of.
1 of the Call of Duty games, can't remember which one.
And Cell Factor Revolution

 

[silentbogo]

Voted "nothing", but every once in awhile I drop-in an SFP+ NIC (x520-DA2) for testing servers and switches for one of my clients.
Initially I wanted a WiFi/BT card, but my "temporary" 10m CAT6 which I just dropped on the floor between corridor and my living room kinda worked out, and I never even tripped over it
That's regarding my main rig. My secondary rigs are in a rack, and they do have all kinds of s%#$t in their slots(RAID cards, NICs etc).

 

[Ruru]

Actually nothing now. That old Intel chip based WLAN card gave random bluescreens via its driver, so I moved my 4G router nearer to my main PC so it's connected via RJ45 now.

On the other hand, that WLAN card is on my tinkering PC's (X58 and Z77 most of the time) x1 slot now.

How do you still have analogue signals?

I guess it was just NA that killed analogue TV?

I used one back in the day for PS1 footage capturing (had the RF modulator cable for PS1), worked actually better than I excepted.

Though that was a PCI card and I ran with Socket A, buuut anyway.

 

[rtwjunkie]

x1 slot has eSATA card, and x8 extra slot has Sound Card.

 

[Caring1]

Why has the Poll closed?
I'm not telling now

 

[theFOoL]

Oh Oh I have the other one as a USB 3.0 2 port one on my 775 build which has WIN11 23H2. I have the other as a Wi-Fi card

 

[freeagent]

You are missing an item from the poll..

Dust!

 

[de.das.dude]

Poll closed. Dang. I have a wifi+bluetooth card. Tp link.

But i dont use the wifi anymore.

 

[valerianf]

Since there is no more discrete Raid controller on any motherboard, I need a PCIe slot for a RAID Sata controller.
Data safety has no price.

 

[Pasi123]

Currently nothing but I'll probably add a M.2 card (preferably something like the Asus Hyper M.2 x16) within the next few years because my board only has two M.2 slots. 2.5Gb NIC is also something I might add if I ever upgrade my home network. Capture card maybe but I already have a USB one. FireWire would be nice for old camcorders but I can use my old PC for that.

My old PC has an Asus Xonar DGX 5.1 sound card and SilverStone EC04-E USB 3.0 card

 

[DudeBeFishing]

The main PC has a 10gb SFP+ NIC and a capture card. The other PC has a M.2 drive and a USB3 card. The server has a 10gb SFP+ NIC, 4 port 1gb NIC, and a USB3 card.

I was going to get sound cards for both PCs to have SPDIF input, so I can route my audio between both PCs, but I found a DAC with two USB ports.

 

[Ruru]

Actually nothing now, my old WLAN card gave bluescreens so I uninstalled it. Had just to put my router near to my PC as I don't have long RJ45 cables.

 

[eidairaman1]

Actually nothing now, my old WLAN card gave bluescreens so I uninstalled it. Had just to put my router near to my PC as I don't have long RJ45 cables.

Make them

 

[Ruru]

Make them

Nah, other devices work fine as wireless so this is fine.

 

[GotNoRice]

I still use a Creative X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Soundcard, because I think that CMSS-3D still does a great job downmixing 7.1 to headphones. I don't use the soundcard on it's own, as I use an external DAC now. I run optical digital from the soundcard to the DAC.

I also have an Nvidia GTX 750Ti in a secondary slot to handle my 5th and 6th monitors. I'm trying to transition to using the integrated video for my 5th and 6th monitors now that I upgraded to a 9800X3D, but I'm procrastinating on re-wiring one of my side monitors which is currently using dual-link DVI (which the 750Ti has).

 

[LittleBro]

I still use a Creative X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Soundcard, because I think that CMSS-3D still does a great job downmixing 7.1 to headphones. I don't use the soundcard on it's own, as I use an external DAC now. I run optical digital from the soundcard to the DAC.

I use basically same card as you, the Creative X-Fi Titanium. There are 2 differences: Fatal1ty edition has metal cover and 64 MB RAM chip instead of 32 MB.
It's a really good and reliable card. Once tried to exchange it for SoundBlaster Z, but shortly after I realized that was a huge mistake. Never had any problems with Titanium drivers since Windows 7.

The sound card is placed in PCIe x1 slot 3.0, but the 2nd one, as 1st is unreachable due to 3-slot design on GPU.
GPU is in primary slot and running at x8 4.0.
I only have 1-CPU bound M.2 slot so I use secondary GPU slot for gaming SSD via adapter with heatsink, running at x8 4.0 (in reality only x4 4.0).
Two other PCIe slots are spare: 1x PCIE_16 x4 for additional storage (if ever needed) or for backup networking card.

I too, have some experience with thunderstorm lightning, but luckily this year only died router along with lightning surge protection and fortunately nothing more.
It's a pitty that even with protection there's still a chance that the surge will be fast/great enough to prevent damaging components that follow after protection.

 

[Macro Device]

Nothing but if you wanna fix this I don't mind as far as it doesn't break me anything.

 

[stahlhart]

Once or twice a year I throw in Ageia PPU and run some old school games with hardware physx, not to be confused with NVidia Physx. I also have a PPU2 card which is twice as powerful and is an engineering sample.

Not relevant to the discussion here, but I still have an old Pentium 3 build that I occasionally fire up for Aureal 3D audio. There is a Diamond Monster Sound card in there now, but back in the day it was a Turtle Beach Montego II Plus.