Mark, On Thu, August 23, 2012 6:05 am, Mark Knecht wrote: > From Kindle so short... > > Paul. Thanks. I'll double check tomorrow but the specs online said the > slots were pci express 2.0. The card is a one lane card but the box > says it can do 533M/S but boxes do lie sometimes.
The "2.0" part is the version. Not the speed. For PCI-e it's usually denoted as 1x, 4x, 8x and 16x. The numbers specify the amount of PCI-express lanes used for the port. More lanes = more bandwidth. As others have already pointed out, it's a single-lane card. Which means you can only get the max for a single PCI-express lane. On a side-note, does anyone know of a way to merge multiple PCI-expres 1x ports together without having to completely rewire the mainboard and "patch" the BIOS? My skillset, unfortunately, doesn't include that... -- Joost
