using a pci card in a pci-e slot

MassiveJim

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I am trying to find a cable/riser board that will allow me to use a PCI soundcard in a PCI-E slot.
It needs to be as low profile as possible, and it also needs to have the pcie slot on a separate board so that I can still mount the soundcard in my case.
Struggling a little though, do these exist ?
 
yeh i had seen those but neither will suit my circumstance i'm afraid.
I have a full height sound card, and I don't have case layout that would suit a right angle
they are also stupidly expensive for what they are to be fair
 
are you wanting a right angle adaptor so you card sits flat to the motherboard or a card and a cable that you can move to a different place in your system
 
they say a picture paints a thousand words.

I am trying to fit this card in my case
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As I am running SLI space is limited, you can see I have a free PCI-e 1x slot above card 1, I have a PCI between the 2 cards, and I have a PCI-E 16x at the bottom of the board.
Putting a sound card in any of these is going to restrict airflow to the gfx cards, and I am worried that buying a PCI-E card and [utting it above the top gfx card will result in too much heat being absorbed by the sound card.

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Looks like lower graphics card could use some support to decrease that drooping...

Despite of similar name PCI and PCI-e are completely different and connecting them together needs active converter circuitry.
I doubt there are many such accessories available.


FlyingScotsman said:
Had a similar setup a few years back and the GPU still ran fine no real issues with temps, with having a sound card mounted so close.
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Problem isn't in GPU but in sound card getting heated up.
Non-reference cooler graphics cards which just keep that heat circulating in case instead of pushing heat out from back increase cooling challenge.
If there's at same time some overclocked CPU spewing out heat above sound card it's not going to stay cool.
Once in Finnish forum one user had incident of Xonar DGX misbehaving once things heated up...
 
Hmm, I wouldn’t have thought temps would be an issue for a sound card.. assuming the sound card doesn’t put out much heat itself it can’t be any hotter than the GPU below it
 
well I ended up buying a used soundcard from MM (not arrived yet) but apparently the Asus Xonar are renowned for running hot. (relatively speaking of course)

@EsaT, Luckily the pictures you are looking at are through the window of my newly purchased Antect p110 which comes with a single GFX card support. The card is now straighter than in the pictures above but with the support being plastic and the card being several years old I think most of the damage is now done :(

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As for the PCI vs PCI-e I kind of figured that out after starting this thread, it was probably going to cots me just as much to get a converter etc as it would just to replace the soundcard.

I'll just stick mine on the MMand hopefully the upgrade/sidegrade cost will be minimal. :)
 
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MassiveJim said:
well I ended up buying a used soundcard from MM (not arrived yet) but apparently the Asus Xonar are renowned for running hot. (relatively speaking of course)
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Hopefully not that old model if Asus.
While Asus has that quality hype image all around it unlike Creative, real situation in software support is pretty much opposite.
(Asus even having ditched not that old Phoebus serie)

For environment wise lowest slot would be likely coolest place for sound card.
While there's no CPU heatsink that heat is still dumped into case by radiator in front and two non-reference graphics cards makes sure there's plenty of heat rising up towards case exhaust fans.


BTW, newest Asus sound cards actually use USB audio chip with USB-PCI-e "brigde" chip.
Guess they just couldn't find native PCI-e codec?
 
EsaT said:
Hopefully not that old model if Asus.
While Asus has that quality hype image all around it unlike Creative, real situation in software support is pretty much opposite.
(Asus even having ditched not that old Phoebus serie)

For environment wise lowest slot would be likely coolest place for sound card.
While there's no CPU heatsink that heat is still dumped into case by radiator in front and two non-reference graphics cards makes sure there's plenty of heat rising up towards case exhaust fans.


BTW, newest Asus sound cards actually use USB audio chip with USB-PCI-e "brigde" chip.
Guess they just couldn't find native PCI-e codec?
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the card I have bought is the Asus Xonar Essence STX, so yeh apretty old card.
It will have to go in the top PCI-e slot though as the bottom one is going to block airflow to the bottom GFX Card.

As for the RAD, I was actually quite annoyed that this rad + fans would not fit in top of the case, for some stupid reason Antec haven't left enough space between the top of the motherboard and top of the case, it would have to have a superthin rad to make it fit :( mine isn't exactly a particularly thick rad either (Corsair H110)
 
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