Desktops General - Locked Topics
Dell Desktops Community Support Forums all models
Posts
Unsolved
This post is more than 5 years old
27 Posts
0
109207
July 30th, 2008 18:00
Dell Xps 630 Motherboard.
Is it true that the Dell Xps 630 motherboard is restricted to olny 8x on the PCIe slots?
Responses(128)
No Events found!
shdbcamping1
475 Posts
0
August 6th, 2008 04:00
Durrthock
27 Posts
0
August 6th, 2008 14:00
touchmaster
123 Posts
0
August 15th, 2008 08:00
DELL-Chris M
Community Manager
Community Manager
•
54.9K Posts
0
August 15th, 2008 14:00
Check your email.
Bloom176
6 Posts
0
August 18th, 2008 20:00
Do you think I could get the same email you sent Touchmaster, Chris_M? I just ordered a Dell xps 630, too, (should be arriving in the next couple of days) and after reading all of this, I'm a little nervous that I made a mistake.
However, it does seem like if I don't mess around the with lighting settings in the NVidia control panel, that I should be able to avoid any problems. True?
touchmaster
123 Posts
0
August 18th, 2008 22:00
I know I'm not going to return mine, I didn't get the pc just for the lights or the motherboard. I think it only applies to SLI configs, but I only plan on useing 1 card.
But I wouldn't worry mate. :)
DELL-Chris M
Community Manager
Community Manager
•
54.9K Posts
0
August 19th, 2008 12:00
True.
foehammer25
201 Posts
0
August 19th, 2008 23:00
"I know I'm not going to return mine, I didn't get the pc just for the lights or the motherboard. I think it only applies to SLI configs, but I only plan on useing 1 card."
Actually, the lack of 16 lanes in one video card slot affects systems with one card more than systems with SLI. With SLI, you are only going to get 8 lanes per video card with any 650 motherboard. The problem is that single video cards that are capable of using 16 lanes, when they are NOT in SLI mode, are being hindered by the Dell version of the 650 motherboard. Since I have SLI at the moment, the lane issues do not affect me. It will only affect me if I choose a more advanced single video card in the future and no not use SLI.