They are both x8 cards. So putting one of them in an x4 slot is limiting it's full potential.
Jay
On May 19, 2012, at 2:24 PM, Dom Q. Silverio wrote:
> Just be mindful if the card is designed as 4x PCIe, putting it in 16x is
> not going to increase performance.
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> On 5/19/2012 3:15 PM, Jay Mahavier wrote:
>> In the MacPro workstation I have running as a server there are 4 PCIe slots. 2 x16, and 2 x4 slots. The graphics card is sitting in one of the x16 slots. Ideally I would want my I/O cards in the fastest slots, my Fiber card and SAS card. Since it's a server, and I mostly remote in to tend to it, do I really need to have a card like a NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT? And do I really need to have a graphics card using one of my x16 slots? Can I get some lowly graphics card and put it in one of the x4 slots? I mean the workstations always show up with the cards in Slot 1, and I never questioned moving it before. Would I be ok doing that? And does anyone have a suggestion for a card I could use in a x4 slot?
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>> Thank you,
>> Jay
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