w/ motherboards now- any good peripherals that use PCI Express x1, x4 or x8 slots??

[billdotson]

I have an Asus P5B Deluxe/Wi-Fi AP edition motherboard and I have got two PCI Express x16 slows on there. One is for me 7800GT and the other in just empty. i have 3 PCI slots but one of them is unusable because the videocard invaeds that slot's space. So on the 2 available PCI slots I have a soundcard and a TV tuner.

yet I have a PCI Express x1 slot that is very small and I have not yet seen a peripheral in the internet to even use that kind of PCI slot. What kind of peripherals even use the x1 slots? x4 slots? x8 slots? x16 slots (other than videocards)?

[Drew Woodard]

if you look around at online stores there are a few pci express 1x network cards, usb cards, and sata controller cards (for internal and external plugs). Though I have yet to see one of these in action.

[rsambuca]

Those, and also TV tuner card, and sound cards.

[billdotson]

but I wonder if the sound cards and TV cards that use those Express slots are really expensive

[RandomJoe]

I haven't shopped for those cards in a while, but did some quick searching on Newegg. (No idea whether these will work on Linux, just what I found first...)

PCI Express X1 tuner card:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16815260003

PCI Express X1 network card:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16833127163
(They also had a much cheaper one listed, but it wasn't currently available...)

PCI Express X1 Firewire/USB card:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16815283003

PCI Express X1 eSATA card:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16816124002

Interestingly, they didn't have a PCI Express sound card that I could fine...

I didn't see anything that would use the x4 or x8 slots - I have a mobo with all those as well, and was wondering what (if anything) I would ever put in them as well...

Edit:
Ah, I did find a couple of x4 cards - SATA 4-port cards like this one:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16816115027

And the x8 cards are just more esoteric / expensive versions of the same - SATA, RAID, SCSI cards:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16816131003
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16816118047

I guess I did learn something - it appears you can plug a lower-"x" card into a higher-"x" slot. Many of the X1 cards said they also supported x4, x8, x16. I didn't know that before! :)