How can I install a mini pci-e card int desktop mobo?

DrMekon · 14 Jan 2010 at 18:48

Theres a decoder card Im looking at for a htpc solution, which is mini pci-e based... my board, prob like most, doesnt boast a mini pci-e slot, and Ive tried without joy to locate some sort of mini pci-e to pci-e adapter, sort of like a riser card, that will fix to the backplates....

Anyone help, or suggest an alternative method of securring such a card...??

frying_pan_cat · 14 Jan 2010 at 18:51

Can you not find one for standard pci-e? I would have thought it would be cheaper and better?

Phatzy · 14 Jan 2010 at 18:52

i guess this is what you need

No hotlinking!

JonJ678 · 14 Jan 2010 at 19:04

Yeah, that would do. I think I've seen a pci-e x8 to four mini-pci card adapter too.

Can you get anything particularly exciting in mini-pci form factor? Might be a way of fitting more hardware in a smaller space

DrMekon · 14 Jan 2010 at 19:07

Thats what I found, but think it was on a US site and out of stock...

Im after this...

http://xbmc.org/davilla/2009/12/29/broadcom-crystal-hd-its-magic/

For XBMC, current versions of XBMC do not support windows based gpu decoding, and this has been reported to work ok with some recent builds of xbmc...

JonJ678 · 14 Jan 2010 at 19:13

Oh right, the decoder card people have been putting in netbooks. Cool. Other things for mini-pci seem to be flash based storage, gps units, various wireless cards. For a m-atx or mini-itx system with few expansion slots this could be genuinely helpful.
Found a card that lets you fit eight mini cards into one pci slot. Bandwidth limited presumably but still exciting.

DrMekon · 14 Jan 2010 at 22:39

Works out at $46 incl delivery.. think ill pass!!!