PCI vs PCIe

[jerry430]

I need to replace my eight year old Dell computer. I currently have Time Warner Cable, a PVR-150 and three Media MVPs. I thought I could just swap the PVR-150 into a new computer, plug in the MVPs and be good to go as before. However, I see that the new PCs have something called PCI Express. The one I'm looking at has one PCIeX1 slot and one PCIeX16 slot.
Will the PVR-150 plug into either of these slots?

[imagn]

I need to replace my eight year old Dell computer. I currently have Time Warner Cable, a PVR-150 and three Media MVPs. I thought I could just swap the PVR-150 into a new computer, plug in the MVPs and be good to go as before. However, I see that the new PCs have something called PCI Express. The one I'm looking at has one PCIeX1 slot and one PCIeX16 slot.
Will the PVR-150 plug into either of these slots?

Unfortunatly not. The PCIeX16 is mostly used for video cards and is basically a faster replacement for an agp slot, you will find that motherboards do not come with AGP slots anymore either.

PCIe is the new technology replacement for PCI slots, you can however find motherboards with both if you are custom building a system, but i assume as time goes on you will not see any PCI slots on motherboards. I havent looked lately, but i am assuming there are very slim pickings if you wanted one.

[Fatman_do]

As imagn stated, they are a different animal all together. PC's with PCI slots still exist, just they are harder to find.

[Sykor]

Most boards still have (in general) two or more PCI slots (in addition to the PCIe ones).

I've been looking at some boards for an am2 upgrade, and I haven't seen one without PCI slots. So you're probably good to go, and those pcie might come in handy for future capture sources upgrades.

[SFX Group]

Quick overview...

PCIe is backwards compatible (PCIe 4x will work in a PCIe 16x slot, PCIe 16 will not work (or fit) into a PCIe 4 slot.

PCI will work in a PCIx slot (there 64bit wide PCI), both PCI and PCIx are redundant (and will be a WHITE slot) the PCIe slots are normally black. AGP (graphics only) are normally brown slots (can be black), and come in 2 voltage flavors (2.5 and 3.3 volt) from memory.

[jerry430]

Thank you all for the info.
As I said in my orig post, I just want to continue with my DVR as before, i.e., record analog cable and watch via my 3 MVPs. I'm not really fussy concerning picture quality, and don't want to pay for an additional STB.
What's the best Hauppauge card (inexpensive) that will do what my PVR-150 does but in a PCIe format for my new computer?

[mvallevand]

The HVR 1800 and HVR 2250 should do what you want, I've seen the HVR 2250 on sale for less than the HVR 1800 too. I think like Sykor you should consider a PC with PCI they are easy to find and you would probably end up saving money.

Martin