[K12OSN] Silly Question

[Dale Sykora]

Liam Marshall wrote:
> I have a silly question.  My ASUS motherboard, dual cpu'd, I believe 
> only has 32 bit PCI slots.  Just got a raid controller that is 64 bit.  
> I believe I am screwed, but does a 32 bit slot accept a 64 bit card and 
> function?
I have used Intel 1Gb network cards that were 64bit pci-x in old 
machines that only had 32bit pci connectors.  They work fine although 
the pci bus may be the throughput bottleneck.