Patent ID: 7631134
Filing Date: 2009-12-08
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer device having the capability of PCIe expansion, comprising: a printed circuit board; a plurality of PCI slots meeting the standard of PCI bus and provided in parallel on one side of the printed circuit board, wherein the adjacent PCI slots are electrically connected through circuits arranged on the printed circuit board; at least one PCIe slot meeting the standard of PCIe bus and provided on the printed circuit board at the same side aligned with one of the PCI slots; at least one PCIe expansion slot meeting the standard of PCIe bus and provided on the printed circuit board at the same side, which is electrically connected to the PCIe slot through expansion circuits arranged on the printed circuit board; and at least one first half-sized PCI CPU card, in which a PCI golden finger and a PCIe golden finger are aligned at an edge thereof and inserted, respectively, into the corresponding PCI and PCIe slots on the printed circuit board, and both the PCI golden finger and the PCIe golden finger are connected to a first South Bridge chip on the first half-sized PCI CPU card.