Exploring the insides of my PC

First off I have to say ''It,s dark in here''

Now being a travelling person I,m used to the wonder that is the laptop and the ease of plugging in the purchased item to an appropriately sized hole.

But upon waiting for delivery on a pc.I found a rather useful sound card and bought it.
Upon reading the instructions it says it must be stuck in a .. PCI 2.1 COMPLIANT slotamathingy..

What is PCI 2.1 ?
like the new standard of pci slots?oldish?redundant?
There must be some genius techies in here that know

I bought/am buying the
Packard bell Imedia 1959...it has the
Rio (GA-8TRC410MNF-RH) Motherboard..
1x PCI Express 16X,1x PCI Express 1X,2x PCI expansion slots

I want to stick in a
Emu proteus x(needs PCI 2.1 compliant slot for E-MU� 0404 PCI card)

So my question to the tech junkies out there is... Do I buy a large hammer too?

To the super duper MODS .

Is this a suitable place for this question?
If not please move to where the realllllly clever computer literate geeks... erm generous geniusses hang out. thanks

I prefer geek, myself. And I didn't even know Packard Bell was still around!
But yes if the motherboard was made any time this century (cool to say that, huh?), it's definitely PCI2.1 compliant.

WOOHOO!!!

Muchos gracias Amigo.
Man that beats the idea of heading back into the void that is the North East christmas shopping crowd..

Now I can watch X -Factor with a self satisfied glow.

Mods can close this mini thread as it has served the point of proving just how clever ATSers are

a Free xmas ''WATS ''up to APC from very relieved compulsive shopper


edit..ps my thumb hurts

[edit on 16-12-2006 by AGENT_T]