Intergrerty -- we've never heard of it - Doc Spinola of that ilk
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PCI Express to PCI converters are available
We're not sure who manufacturers it, but are not desperately upset by this.
This is an adapter that will fit into your motherboard's spare PCIe x1 slot, the one that's often right next to your graphics card, so you can't plug anything into it, and give you an additional PCI slot… at the wrong height.
Yep - stick a sound card into one of these and you'll be unable to shut your case, or secure the card as far as we can tell!
Now, we've yet to see any motherboards which have PCIe x1 slots and a shortage of PCI slots. Also the number of add-on peripherals that you need to add to a modern motherboard has reduced since most boards now come with integrated 1394, SATA, USB2, LAN and audio.
The device seems to use the same PLX bridge chip that this PCI X1300 graphics card does.
Maybe somebody will find a use for it. ยต
L'Inq
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I have a pci audigy 2 platinum which the external drive of which is very cool and I use constantly, on a motherboard with only one pci slot in a thermaltake super tower case.
To replace that card with the only available pcie card with an external drive with the sweet headphone and microphone volume controls would be 200 bucks. The PCI slot crowds my second pcie 16 slot to the point that the 8800GT thats in it now gets 0 air intake. I do have tons of available pcie slots though.
Given that most motherboards now only have 1 or 2 pci slots, I don't see any real pointlessness.
This adapter was probably designed to take low-profile PCI cards, which are pretty common. Often the only difference between a low-profile card and a regular card is the length of the bracket. Sometimes cards even come with both brackets so you can install the cards in either a standard case or a server case.
At worst, all you would have to do is shorten an existing bracket with a hacksaw and some pliers--which shouldn't be too much of a stretch if you're already pulling a Dr. Frankenstein by installing one of these adapter cards.
Well after 1/2 a day of dupt & searchng I finaly found a web adress that tells you were to buy from 3 differnt sorts of PCI to PCI Express converters ok heres the link
http://gopaultech.com/blog/2009/04/what-is-a-pci-express-adapter/
this should answer many computer nerds
problems! though Im not one of them thats for sure Im Just highly dedicated Thanks. Note all names are high-lighted blue in the sentences.
I think tha only one who is mis judged
and short sited is the writer of this article.
I have a HP ML115 G5 server. Guess what..?.it did not come with a PCI slot.
Also I have a digium FXO card to go into it and this card is a PCI standard card.
Now you can understand the use for this card as the converter will work very well. It is only fair that we put our techincal hat on before we rush to critisize products as this
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not_Cowbow
my new HP PC (m8307c) has NO spare PCI slot, but does have a spare PCI-e slot. And I can't find a replacement PCI-e version of the old PCI card I need to transfer from my old PC - may not exist in the USA, strangely.

I trust that the designers didn't really overlook the concern for misalignment of PCI boards when installed into this adapter - I mean, the first test would have pointed this up even if it didn't occur to anyone in drawing out the PC board, right?
Our old server utilized a parallel port on a PCI card to connect a sentinel security dongle. The new server has only PCI-e and no parallel port. We have ordered new USB dongles, but it would have been nice to have a converter such as this for a quick fix.
The PCI card is rather small so would fit in the box with the converter.
This device would be very useful in a development environment where the bus the use of several existing PCI cards will overload the PCIbus. Obviously the production solution would involve a true PCIe re-design!
So, cynicism aside, who makes it?