Help with Odd Setup.

[Thanatos.]

Ok at my work we have a HP Proliant DL360 G5 server and are needing to hook it up to a big LCD TV that displays call information for one of our departments we were also needing this server to have sound. So i found out it has two PCI-E 8x slots so i was looking into This for the video option it has a composite output and the guy that is running the wires is can run some rca wires from our server room to the room where the LCD TV is going and for the sound i cant find a PCI-E soundcard so we were thinking of maybe something like http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16829612001 with a RCA converter. Will this all work?

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[engiNURD]

If you have a PCI-X slot, like you say you have, then you can use a PCI sound card. If by "PCI-X," you meant "PCI-E," then go with the usb for audio. The HP site says the server could come with two PCI-E slots or one PCI-E and one PCI-X. The video card you chose will be fine.

 

[Thanatos.]

I didnt realize that PCI-X and PCI-E were different? I know PCI-E and regular PCI are diffent but what is PCI-X then?

 

[digital_exhaust]

PCI-X is basically a faster version of PCI, it uses the same design but can run twice as fast.

 

[engiNURD]

Since you're too busy to search google, here you go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pci-x

Confusion with PCI-Express

PCI-X is often confused with PCI-Express, commonly abbreviated as PCI-E or PCIe. While they are both high-speed computer buses for internal peripherals, they differ in many ways. The first is that PCI-X is a parallel interface that is directly backward compatible with all but the oldest (5 volt) PCI devices. PCIe is a serial bus that offers no compatibility with older buses. In the future PCI-X and PCI buses may run off a PCIe bridge, similar to the way ISA buses ran off PCI buses in some computers. This should not be confused with compatibility. PCIe also matches PCI-X and even PCI-X 2.0 in maximum bandwidth. PCIe x1 offers 250 MB/s in both directions, and currently supports up to an x16 standard at 4 GB/s.

PCI-X has a number of technological and economical disadvantages compared to PCI-Express. The 64-bit parallel interface requires inherently difficult trace routing, because as with all parallel interfaces, the signals from the bus must arrive simultaneously or within a very short window, and noise from adjacent slots may cause interference. The serial interface of PCIe suffers fewer such problems and therefore requires less complex and less expensive designs. PCI-X buses, like PCI, are half-duplex bidirectional whereas PCIe buses are full-duplex bidirectional. PCI-X buses run only as fast as the slowest device; PCIe devices are able to independently negotiate the bus speed.