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Re: PCI hardware



On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 10:35:08AM -0500, vinai wrote:
> With the newer, faster flavours of PCI (PCI-X, etc) there might be some
> incompatibilities.  I've already heard rumblings about the new Apple G5
> machines only being able to use 3.3V "PCI" cards. But they run on a new
> flavour of PCI, and won't be able to use the older (5V) PCI cards.

They are not alone. Lots of new PCs also require the 3.3V PCI cards.
Also note that those cards will not physically fit in a 5V slot, so
there should be no risk of damaging the cards.

Frank



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