PCI-E x16 and PCI-E x1video card slots?

If you only have (1) PCI-E x16, andone PCI-E x1 Slot on your motherboard, how can you stack 2 PCI-E video cards and get the same capability on them?



Do you have toget one PCI-E x16 and one AGP video card, or does the second stacked video card have to go into the PIC-E x1 slot?

But wont that make itslower?

So the second veideo card isnt actually working as the first one will?

can someone explain this please|||Why not get 1 PCI x16 card that can drive 2 monitors?



Dual Monitor Video Cards

http://www.superwarehouse.com/Dual_Monit…|||It seems you want to make dual card rendering or SLI...

You must have SLI capable mainboard and SLI graphic card..



you cannot use two different type of graphic card (PCI-E and AGP)...



PCI-E x1 is not for graphic card it's for something else..|||Wanna try SLI/Crossfire??



well u *cant* install *2* video cards in *1* slot......its obvious!!



Though u can get 2 in 1 video cards which have serious power AND price



SLI is a technology by nvidia which can connect 2 cards to each other and double up the power.......ofcourse this requires 2 PCI slots and 2 identical video cards....then it'll work



Crossfire is the same thing accept it's from ATi.



and the board sud support crossfire/SLI



other wise no use using 2 video cards|||PCI-Express is the new technology being adopted and developed by motherboard producers.

The first generation had a speed of 8x of that of the AGP slot. AGP slots and PCI-E slots are different by the way which means that if you have a motherboard that supports PCI-E slots for a 3rd party video card then you must buy a video card that supports the PCI-E design otherwise if you have a video card that has the AGP slot design then it won't fit and wouldn't work in the first place.

The second generation PCI-E design has 16x speed of that of the AGP slot technology. This is the current mainstream design being used today by leading video card manufacturers.

Now, regarding your question about using 2 video cards... You must have a motherboard that supports the SLI technololgy (by NVIDIA video cards) and or the Crossfire technology (by ATI Radeon video cards). These technology/design allows a user to have 2 video cards (usually of the same model) working together to double the performance of what a single video card can do. Motherboards that support the SLI/Crossfire technology have 2 PCI-E x16 slots where 2 PCI-E video cards (with the same model and maker and supports SLI or Crossfire) are inserted and connected.

Try these sites to learn more about SLI/Crossfire technology.



http://www.slizone.com/object/slizone_di…



http://ati.amd.com/technology/crossfire/…|||your motherboard not support crossfire.if you bought the cards then buy new motherboards like ABIT AN9 32x.



also when you want setup crossfire connection you must have

ati card crossfire edition and the other one crossfire ready

it means master and slave card.it does'nt work like SLI

(except for x1950pro)