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These are Asus Xonar STX and a EMU 1212M audio cards, both are PCI cards. Modern mobos have no more PCI slots and I was wondering if anyone had tried one of the PCIe to PCI adapter thingys like so: https://www.amazon.com/Sintech-PCI-Express-Riser-Extender/dp/B00KZHDSLQ/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=pcie+to+pci&qid=1554563195&s=electronics&sr=1-4
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Apr 6, 2019 16:07
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I've never used one of them, but PCIe is essentially PCI under the hood, so I'd expect it to work just fine. I'd probably look at something with a more convenient form factor (and better known company) like this: https://www.startech.com/Cards-Adapters/Slot-Extension/PCI-Express-to-PCI-Adapter-Card~PEX1PCI1
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Apr 10, 2019 05:13
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Minus Pants posted:I've never used one of them, but PCIe is essentially PCI under the hood, so I'd expect it to work just fine. I'd probably look at something with a more convenient form factor (and better known company) like this: https://www.startech.com/Cards-Adapters/Slot-Extension/PCI-Express-to-PCI-Adapter-Card~PEX1PCI1 I thought pci and pcie were fundamentally totally different
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Apr 10, 2019 14:13
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HalloKitty posted:I thought pci and pcie were fundamentally totally different They are. But those Startech things have bridge chips in them to handle the conversion. I've used one for some legacy interface cards running extremely old HVAC gear and they worked fine. Can only support half-height cards though, that might get you with a sound card.
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Apr 10, 2019 14:27
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Hmm ok, so it should theoretically work. I need something different than that half height thing since my sound cards are full height.
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Apr 10, 2019 15:32
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If you've got the clearance and are ok with carving up the case a bit you could make it work. I can also see a couple external PCI enclosures that would do the job, but that's very niche and they're coming in around $300.
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Apr 10, 2019 15:51
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Yeah no way, not carving my case up  Ugh, Maybe Ill get one of the adapters with an extension pci-e thingy and just build a little rig outside my case.
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Apr 10, 2019 19:58
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HalloKitty posted:I thought pci and pcie were fundamentally totally different Physically they are completely different, but the logical protocol is backwards compatible. My point was just that it's a straightforward conversion.
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Apr 11, 2019 02:44
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