In theory, yes, you should be able to. In practice, a lot of boards have busted implementations and don't work well with cards other than graphics. Intel-based boards seem to be the biggest culprit, but the fact that not all have the issue seems to implicate the boad manufacturer more than the chipset (or Intel) itself. Good news is that taping over the SMBus pins on the PCIe card connector seems to resolve the issue for those boards that do have issues.
Greg > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden > Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 7:53 AM > To: hwg > Subject: [H] Non-video cards in PCIe slot > > Might be a dumb question, but can you stick any PCI Express card in the > 16x > PCI-E slot found on most motherboards? Or is that slot for video only > and > you need to stick all other PCI-E cards in other slots. > > Asking specifically because I am about to order a PCI-E x8 RAID card. > I > plan on sticking it in my Gigabyte 780G mobo which has 1 16x PCI-E slot > and > 2 regular PCI slots; the PCI-E slot is free since I am using the > onboard > video. > > ---- > Brian
