[teradost]

Sup everyone

I've been look at different motherboards for my system, and want something with PCI Express. However, all of

the motherboards with PCI Express have either 1 or 2 "x16" slots and 2 or 3 "x1" slots.

How important is it to have the extra PCI Express x16 slot? And what kind of cards are being made for the PCI

Express x1 slot? Basically, should I dish out bucks for the extra "x16" slot or stick it out with the "x1"

slots?

A bonus question: are there motherboards coming out that have only the PCI Express slots? I plan on waiting a

couple of months to see what Processor improvements AMD and Intel come up with before buying, and want to

know whether there are new motherboards coming out as well

Thanks

[MSP]

You want a x16 slot, and two if you ever plan on running dual video cards (aka SLI). x16 is just related to bandwidth as I recall. Like AGP2, 4, 8, etc.

[ivanolo]

Motherboards that use ATi's CrossFire and nVidia's SLI technology have two PCIe x16 slots. It may make sense to buy such a motherboard with a single graphics card, and upgrade by adding a second card later, instead of having to replace it. This may or may not be important to you, depending on whether you're a gamer or not.
Having PCIe x1 and x2 slots is definitely a plus. Many add-on cards such as NICs, SATA and FW host controller cards, and TV tuners are starting to come out in PCIe flavors.
I'm not aware of a motherboard that does away with legacy PCI ATM, but buying something with, like, two PCI slots is possible. Are you looking for anything in particular? We can help you....