Dan, here's why a pricey adapter is desired: speed. The two "legacy" PCI slots in the X1000 are only capable of 33mhz. When I tried a 9250 card in that in order to use Warp3D with my X1000, I was sorely disappointed in the performance. It looked better on my Sam. This past year I followed the lead of folks posting in a thread over on Amigans and bought a rather expensive PCIe to PCI-X adapter and plug my PCI 9200 card (no longer have the 9250) into that. The adapted PCI-X slot yielded PCI speed of 66mhz, and 3D performance is much, much better. But it's a pretty Frankenstein solution..... PCIe ribbon thingy going from small PCIe slot to the PCI-X adapter turned upside down and then 9200 PCI card plugged into that and hanging in my case with some ingenuity of my own devising. Better solution will be RadeonHD 3D drivers..... one day. Meantime, my 3D is better than it was, at least.
