Joe McCauley wrote:
> I'm upgrading my PC & the new system has no PCI slots. I need to run some=
 NI data acquisition PCI cards in this machine, so I was looking at one of =
these - http://www.virtuavia.eu/shop/pci-e-x1-to-dual-pci-with-case.html.
>
> Has anyone used something similar? Will my OS (windows 7/8.1) see the car=
ds? I'm going to be running them in Labview. I'm sort of stuck with this ma=
chine and apart from that, PCI slots seem to be well on the way out so if i=
t worked, this would be a lot better than throwing out all the PCI cards I =
use from time to time.=20
Theres no general reason why a PCIe to PCI adaptor like this shouldn't=20
work. PCIe to PCI bridges are a pretty standard component which windows=20
knows how to deal with (many motherboards have them onboard). The only=20
question is will the corners they have cut (for example they appear to=20
be abusing a USB3 cable to carry the PCIe connection) lead to=20
unreliability.

I haven't used such soloutions myself but I did hear from an NI guy that=20
some external expansion soloutions had caused problems with their cards=20
in the past.

Are you being forced into a specific model of computer by an employer or=20
something? Last I looked the "leet gamer" boards were generally lacking=20
PCI and the smaller form factor boards tend to only have at most one PCI=20
slot due to space restrictions but there were plenty of midrange ATX=20
boards arround with 2-3 PCI slots.


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