Mini PCI-E to PCI-E Express 1X Extension Cord Adapter Card with USB Riser Card

My Intel Atom mini-ITX board in my router/firewall only has one PCI slot, already filled with ethernet ports. That particular board has an orphaned onboard video controller with poor driver support, not playing well with Linux or BSD. I thought I'd have to replace the motherboard, but discovered that its mini (micro?) pcie slot could be adapted to connect to a regular PCI-E card with this clever bit of hackery.Installation was a snap, the included longer connector cable was a lifesaver, allowing me to route past the network card, provisions for extra power via a disk power connector allows for power-hungry cards, the device and video card came up first try, and I've had absolutely no problems with the system since.Note that mini PCI-E slots only have a single channel (I believe, at least mine is single channel), so you can't hope to strap in some blazing fast video or thunderbolt controller, but this can solve a host of problems in a small build that just needs a little more I/O.

Worked well with minimal issues to connect a Zotec GT 710 1GB DDR3 video card to an Acer Aspire xc-603g via the wireless card slot. Even with the limited bandwidth, it showed that it performed noticeably better than the onboard graphics. To clarify, the computer is not my gaming computer, just something for my daughter to have fun with. The GT 710, made possible with this adapter, allowed Minecraft education edition to be playable.The only two issues that I have with the product is that the pcie x1 slot is a bit bulky and causes the video card to sit at a bit of an angle inside the case, although that's being picky for the reason that I needed it for. The real complaint that I have is that the larger pins in the power adapter that it came with were loose, which caused me to consider needing to buy a different one after I was unable to get it to fit after a few minutes. But it ended up fitting, and works well.Acer Aspire xc-603g8GB Crucial 1600mhz (running at 1333)500GB Kingston SSDZotec GT 710 1GBNetgear a6210 wireless adapterHP 24m monitor

I have an I3 based Intel NUC (BOXDC3217IYE) tiny server I bought on Amazon all the way back in 2013 as your basic home server. It has stood me well for a variety of home uses over the years and has been a reliable and power-efficient little guy that has been running 24x7 for 7 years as a media server (WMC, now Emby) and backup device among other functions. But it only has USB 2 ports and all of the external drives currently attached to it are USB 3, and I wanted an improvement in disk performance - those drives don't ever do better than about 30MB/s on sequential reads and writes on USB 2. With Emby, if I'm recording 3 TV shows at once that speed doesn't cut it - WMC needed less performance from a drive. Well this little part is the answer.My NUC has a tiny half-size mini PCI-E slot under the mSATA slot that was intended for a WiFi card and this neatly slid into it (after breaking off the end - it is designed so you can do that) while still allowing room for the mSATA. I then had to cut a hole in the NUC chassis to run the ribbon cable outside where I could externally connect a USB 3 adapter in the 1X slot. (I used this one: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07SRT4PLL)To make this work I did need external power - this device comes with a 4 pin molex cable - I cut off the molex (power supply) end and then wired the yellow wire (+12V) and the black ground wire to a 12V wall wart power adapter I had laying around - I have quite a wall-wart power adapter collection. (I didn't need the red +5V connector - that is for the USB 2 adapter this card also includes and that I wasn't going to use)And Voila! Windows 10 saw the USB 3.0 SuperSpeed adapter on boot. Sequential reads/writes on the exact same drives improved by well over 300%.I admit that physically this isn't pretty and I may figure out an enclosure solution down the road, but it certainly added life to a server that in every other way was adequate to my needs and was a cheap way to do so.Color me pleased.

Buyer beware: What is pictured is not what I received.The picture describes a full-length mini-PCIe adapter (that can be cut down to half-length), with both a 15cm and 25cm cable, along with a molex-to-berg power cable, mounting screws, and a screwdriver.What I received is a mini-PCIe adapter that has already been broken down to half-length, along with only the 25cm cable. The power adapter and mounting screws are nowhere to be found. The static bag containing this came obviously pre-opened.I think I have enough of the operative parts to make this work, but I now will at a minimum have to purchase a full-to-mini PCIe adapter (as the device I'm working with only has full-length mounting holes.)

I had to remove my wifi card from the brix, but it proved very doable.The ribbon doesn't get damaged as the case has an exact spacing where the ribbon is located (as if they knew I would use this tool).I'm running a Gigabyte GT 1030 from the ribbon just fine! Fluid 720 and some 1080p gaming, finally!Excellent for folding or Bitcoin mining.Pcie 2.0 1x speed equals 500MB/s, not bad for most older games including crysis.

Worked with a variety of PCIe x1 cards that I used for testing: Intel E1000E, Broadcom Tigon3, Marvell SATA controller. Used with a Raspberry Pi 4 CM I/O board.