PCI Express to Quad PCI Slots Expansion Box

The CGS-1PCIe4X PCI Express to Quad PCI Slots Expansion Box is specially designed to expand 4 extra PCI slots from a PCI Express Slot. The “no latency” bandwidth is 2000Mpbs allowing you to run variety of external cards, even PCI-X graphics cards, SATA RAID Cards, SCSI RAID, Etc. It includes a PCIe adapter card, a cable and the slot box itself. The box is powered by a 12VDC AC adapter. It provides instant PCI bus expansion via the PCI Express Bus (PCIe). PCI Express provides a scalable, high-speed, serial I/O bus that maintains backward compatibility with PCI applications and drivers.

The CGS-1PCIe4X PCI Slots Expansion Box’s architecture defines a high-performance, point-to-point, scalable, serial bus at speed of 250Mbytes/sec to 4GBytes/sec (and 8Gbytes/sec in the future). The PCI slots of the box are fully Plug-and-Play compatible and no IRQ and I/O address conflict problems. The CGS-1PCIe4X provides the scalability to quickly adapt to new PCI Express technologies for legacy PCI add-in cards. It allows you to add PCI connectivity as needed.

Specification

• System Fully Compliant with x1 PCI Express Base Specifications 1.0a PCI Slots
• Provides four 32-bit/33HMZ PCI Slots
• Fully PCI Specifications 2.3 Compliant
• Supports both 5V and 3.3V Fault Tolerance Option
• Advanced PCI Bus Port Arbitration Options Include 128-phase, Weighted Round-Robin Time-Based and 128-phase, Weighted Round-Robin Aggressive Time-Based
• Advanced PCI Isochronous Windows for Memory Space Mapping to a Specified Traffic Class I/O Hardware Host Connector: One 24-pin Connector for PCI Express Host cable DC Power Jack: One DC Jack for 12V AC Adapter Power Input Environmental Specifications Operating Temperature: 0 to 55°C (32 to 131°F), 10% to 90% relative humidity (non-condensing) Storage Temperature: -40 to 75°C (-40 to 167°F), 5% to 95% relative humidity (non-condensing) Form Factor 8.11×5.39×5.63? (20.60x 13.70×14.30cm) CGS-1PCIe4X PCIe to PCIx4 Expansion Box
• Full x1 PCI Express Throughput, 250Mbytes/sec
• Fully Compliant with PCI Express Base Specifications, Revision 1.0a
• PCI Express Advanced Error Reporting Capability Including ECRC Support
• Expands 4 PCI 32-bit 33MHZ Slots over PCI Express Slot
• PCI Slots are fully Compliant PCI Bus Rev. 2.3
• Supports both 5V and 3.3V Add-in Cards
• Supports Cable Length up to 2 meters
• Low Profile Version is Available with Short Bracket PCI Express card
• 12VDC AC Power Adapter is Required
• Metal Case for Critical Applications
• Extended Virtual Channel (VC) Support Includes a Second VC for Quality-of-Service and Isochronous Applications
• Active State Link Power Management Support
• Wake Event and Beacon Support

Additional Information

This PCI-e to 4X PCI Slot Expansion Enclosure by itself is unaffected by the operating system in which it will be working with, it is a separate entity until connected to the computers PCIe card.

The PCI cards installed in the computer that is used with the expansion enclosure (any expansion enclosure) must have drivers that are compatible with the operating system they are working with.

Because of Operating system changes in the computer industry, not all installed PCI cards will work with your PC’s operating system, therefore, you must go to the card manufactures website to download an updated driver that will work with the operating system on your computer.