Using old PCI cards. The PCIe to PCI adapter.
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- Опубліковано 12 чер 2023
- Forgot to say that molex connector on the adapter may also becoming obsolete. It could be manually spliced to a PCIe power cable, or an adapter between a PCIe power cable and a molex may be readily available.
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The sticky stuff on the bridge card is soldering flux. It helps the solder flow into the joint between the connector and PCB. It usually should be cleaned off, but this card was made cheaply and crappily.
Good idea, helped I figure what adapter to find for my project.
Looking at the size of the adapter card, this gave me some insight to how much space the card takes.
Looks like the PCI slot could be removed to save 3mm or so, then depending on layering of the PCIe connector, i.e. powerand ground sheets between the board, I may be able to chop that down and make it fit the external CDROM chassis of a Lenovo thinkcenter mini-PC and route the PCIe lanes from the WiFi socket or NVME (Use SATA for data), then I could have a very good sounding mini-PC.
Well what I was saying that if you use this sort of adapter, your card will raise up from where it would be normally. You can't like hack into your motherboard to gain room. So really you need a case that makes sense with a card being higher up than normal, and maybe some of it needs to be cut out, or a clip added to for locking the card down.
@@MatthewSuffidy I know, I just didn't know until I watched how compact the card already was.
I note the soundcard has room for one of these cards to go inside of a Lenovo "1 lite PC" external CD-drive caddy.
I just didn't know how compact the card was until I saw your video with them fitted together.
This helped me realise both would fit inside the space constraints.
p.s.
I'm the sort that, if you've seen those "xbox turn laptop/handheld" DIY conversions where they brutally chopup the console motherboard and hand-solder loads of wires (Hats out to them!), I'd cut things down and solder things together to get the most out of a small space, I just wasn't sure this card would be small enough and the ASMedia chip had no datasheet I could find.
I have a spare electrically PCIe socket in the micro PC.
couldn't you use a pcie riser to move the card to one of those open slots at the bottom?
@@juanwick730 Unfortunately, no.
Basically, my mini-PC is more like a laptop connector wise.
As for the person's video, possibly, though, I'm sure he had a mainboard in the way of those openings.
@@juanwick730 It was just a test system, the real one would have a full sized board.
I also have several of these bridges here. In a retro PC I connected two Voodoo 2 cards to a PCIe X1 slot. Even SLI works. Then I have a server from 2004 with a Radeon Low Profile R7 250 graphics card that has 2 GB. Now I plan to implement a fun project with the help of such adapters. An Athlon XP 2400+ from 2002 with a high-end gaming GPU such as the GeForce 980, 1080 or from AMD's R9 300 or RX 400 series should be used. You will ask how I want to do it.... I install an AGP to PCI adapter on the AGP slot, I install a PCI to PCIE adapter on this PCI slot. Then I take a PCIe riser and install the card vertically in a gaming case. 😁 I'll see if that works, I'm still missing the AGP adapter for testing. It's already ordered. I think this is going to be the craziest Socket 462 PC out there. If it works.
Very interesting presentation, Matt.
Might be interesting for someone with some electronics engineering skills to put together a "motherboard" that's basically just a bunch of PCI slots and a PCIe-to-PCI converter chip that can be connected by a long PCIe cable to an adjacent machine with PCIe slots, then you'd have two side-by-side cases, one filled with modern cards, and one with legacy ones, but both being part of the same computer.
Looking at my case, thinking I could probably use the available vertical GPU mount slots, and that first connector. Hmm. I could use my Audigy again.
Another thing is some stereo cable have right angled connectors so if you install them before the card they would probably fit and the wires would come out the card slot.
Hi, you may found one, because i didnt, do pci to isa cards exsist? I tried my best finding one, but i found only one and that is not that promissing
Well one problem there is the framework or what is a PCI bus vs a ISA bus. In theory you can do it, but the computer itself would have to expect the ISA card somewhere in address space it usually would not be, and something else has to set it up. So I expect the demand is not there, but it could be an interesting enthusiast idea.
@@MatthewSuffidy hm, expected something like that, but thanks, maybe windows or linux would detect something like that the pc "it self" would not realy, but i was just finding a way to get a floppy controller on a modern pc to work without usb
Mine doesnt work ...