Thanks to all who weighed in on this. I bought one & tested it this morning. I'm ha= ppy to say that my system found and installed the driver for my NI6034 ADC = card which I installed in it. I've not done any further testing as I need t= o find the interface cable for that.... It came with no instructions which caused some initial confusion as to how = to set it up. You have a choice between operating it from a USB 3 type conn= ector at the back or from one on the inside of the case. You need to set up= some jumpers on the board accordingly. These are marked on the board. =20 Sadly, the same card does not quite physically fit in the case, sticking ou= t the back about 1mm. This means I can't close the case properly, I may end= up operating it from a drive bay anyhow, so this is not a huge deal at the= moment for me. Again thanks to all, Joe -----Original Message----- From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of= Jesse Lackey Sent: 04 September 2014 07:22 To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public. Subject: Re: [OT]:PCI-E x1 to Dual PCI adapter experiences? Please do report findings! I have an Audio Precision analyzer with a PCI c= ard and an ancient XP machine that exists solely to run it very occasionall= y. Would love to get it on the newish 'real computer'. A USB retrofit/ada= pter from Audio Precision is $350, oucha grumble. Cheers, J Joe McCauley wrote: > Thanks to all for the guidance on this. I'll probably get one in the=20 > next week or two. If I do, I'll report back my findings... > > Joe ________________________________________ From: > piclist-bounces@mit.edu [piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of Richard=20 > R. Pope [mechanic_2@charter.net] Sent: 02 September 2014 > 09:43 To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public. Subject: Re: > [OT]:PCI-E x1 to Dual PCI adapter experiences? > > Hello all, I agree that these adapters should work fine. It looks like=20 > this company has spent a lot of time and effort developing them.=20 > Thanks, rich! > > On 8/31/2014 5:44 PM, peter green wrote: >> Joe McCauley wrote: >>> I'm upgrading my PC & the new system has no PCI slots. I need to run=20 >>> some NI data acquisition PCI cards in this machine, so I was looking=20 >>> at one of these -=20 >>> 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 cards= ? I'm going to be running them in Labview. I'm sort of stuck with this mach= ine and apart from that, PCI slots seem to be well on the way out so if it = worked, this would be a lot better than throwing out all the PCI cards I us= e from time to time. >> Theres no general reason why a PCIe to PCI adaptor like this=20 >> shouldn't work. PCIe to PCI bridges are a pretty standard component=20 >> which windows knows how to deal with (many motherboards have them=20 >> onboard). The only question is will the corners they have cut (for=20 >> example they appear to be abusing a USB3 cable to carry the PCIe >> connection) lead to unreliability. >> >> I haven't used such soloutions myself but I did hear from an NI guy=20 >> that some external expansion soloutions had caused problems with=20 >> their cards in the past. >> >> Are you being forced into a specific model of computer by an employer=20 >> or something? Last I looked the "leet gamer" boards were generally=20 >> lacking PCI and the smaller form factor boards tend to only have at=20 >> most one PCI slot due to space restrictions but there were plenty of=20 >> midrange ATX boards arround with 2-3 PCI slots. >> >> > > -- http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive=20 > View/change your membership options at=20 > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > -- http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/chang= e your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclis= t --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .