Ken Elliott wrote:
> So the marketers made a mess of things for users and won the marketing war.
> But the engineers did good - we have a new standard that works well and cuts
> cost, yet has better performance. Yes, you can put a single-lane PCI-e card
> in any PCI-e slot as long as it has the same or greater number of lanes as
> the card. In fact, I needed a graphics card for a HP server that had a
> 8-lane PCI-e slot, but the cards where either 1-land or 16-lane. I used
> Dremel to cut off the last 8 lanes of the graphics card and it worked fine.
> How's that for backward compatibility?
Hi Ken,
I know, you have a good corporate IT budget. You can afford a PCI-e card
*and* a Dremel. Probably even have a legal copy of The Great $atan.
/envy/
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