Why would they make a 1x PCIe edition?

so it could fit in the only pcie slot it had

pcie 1.1 1x

barely faster than pci, but pci cards are hard to find modern ones

the onboard graphics were unsupported, so i had to improvise

Sounds like it's time to update the system. Lol.

Nah, its the only PC i have that can read floppies

For archival purposes

not archiving TO floppies, but from them

And they didn't make it, i modded the card to be pcie 1x

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dvxcnfx3Bm0

kinda like this

its as easy as cutting off the extra lanes

Any GPU should be able to run at 1x however I'd recommend just using a PCIe extension rather than cutting the card.

Its a card i got for 5$ on ebay, and i didnt find any mining risers for 5$

not to mention mounting that in a BTX case would probably be a pain

I bought a usb floppy reader and writer. Like 15 or 20 bucks off Amazon in 2019. Lol.

Wow, you actually have one of those unicorn BTX cases

5.25 floppies

Ah. Those old ones.

I'm not paying 90$ for a kyroflux or whateve rthey are called

Hmmm....

and i very rarely need to do it, maybe a few times a year

Yeah. I'm sure those are hard to find.

so just using an old pc for it is not a problem for me

But why not get a usb to ide adapter? Will it not work if you did that?

Floppies dont use IDE for one, and the USB to 34pin floppy only work for 3.5 drives

at least all the cheap ones

Hmmm.... could have sworn. But then again I haven't tried.

Or looked into it.

it looks almost the same, just a few less pins for floppy

I'm in that awkward age group that I used floppies but only the 3.5 floppies so what about the protocol on the connector prevents it from using the other types of drives?

Just because the cheap adapters only coded for 3.5 format drives

Each disk type has its own format, AFAIK

a real floppy controller will use any drive the bios has code for, in dells case all the ones i need

i still can't beleive they never made a PCI floppy controller

I remember my dad using dos and win 3.11 and then 95 and 98. We skipped me and almost skipped 2k. Then xp.

all of them are either on the board or ISA cards

Yeah my family also went from DOS to 95 to XP.

My Compaq laptop came with 2000, and at some point i put lubuntu on there

I remember playing a train. Good game.