It is 2025, you have a PCI slot you really want to fill, what do you stick in it?

Yukikaze · 2025-01-18T19:21:59+0000

Not a terribly serious thread since it is just a silly idea I have, but: I have a museum piece of a system based on a Core 2 Extreme X6800. It has an unused PCI slot (another PCI is blocked by the bottom case fan, the PCIe x16 has a GPU and the PCIe x1 slot has a WiFi card) and for some weird reason I just want to fill it. What should I try to stick into it? The only real limitation is that whatever it is, it needs to have a Win10 driver available as the system is running W10 IoT LTSC.

Sound card seems to be the obvious answer, but since the system connects to a TV via HDMI it wouldn't really be used. Are there digital tuners on PCI that have a W10 driver? Any other ideas? Thanks for any suggestions for my silly idea!

ShrimpBrime · 2025-01-18T19:42:37+0000

Well pretty much a bunch of dated stuff that wouldn't be so useful on W10.

Maybe an Ageia physx card, but these are also made in PCI-E 4x format as well. And these cards can use NV physx drivers for modern operating systems, but if you have any NV card like an 8800 Ultra or something, you wouldn't need the physx card.

Just an example of what I might use the slot for on vintage hardware.

freeagent · 2025-01-18T20:04:31+0000

I would stick a TV card in there, might not be much fun if you cant change the channel though.. might defeat the purpose.

The one I had was from Sapphire, and I want to say I had an Nvidia that did it too, but that was a loong time ago.. getting fuzzy.. pretty sure I had one..

FX5200 maybe..?

PCI RAID card for some coffee perc action?

Frick · 2025-01-18T20:08:15+0000

Yukikaze said:
Not a terribly serious thread since it is just a silly idea I have, but: I have a museum piece of a system based on a Core 2 Extreme X6800. It has an unused PCI slot (another PCI is blocked by the bottom case fan, the PCIe x16 has a GPU and the PCIe x1 slot has a WiFi card) and for some weird reason I just want to fill it. What should I try to stick into it? The only real limitation is that whatever it is, it needs to have a Win10 driver available as the system is running W10 IoT LTSC.

Sound card seems to be the obvious answer, but since the system connects to a TV via HDMI it wouldn't really be used. Are there digital tuners on PCI that have a W10 driver? Any other ideas? Thanks for any suggestions for my silly idea!

SATA controller.

Waldorf · 2025-01-18T20:14:26+0000

maybe something with video-in/recording ability?
think really depends on what you use the pc for.
for the past couple of years with lack of analog OTA, i started streaming tv thru sw, so no tv card needed anymore.

bonehead123 · 2025-01-18T20:57:46+0000

How about one of those warning shot cards ?

The ones that blow flames out the back of it & scream at you loudly if/when you try to do something stupid with your rig. :roll:

..

j/k

agent_x007 · 2025-01-18T21:09:03+0000

About sound card : ASUS Xonar has Windows 10 drivers.
From practical use... I'd say a USB card, or SATA controller.

kilo · 2025-01-18T21:22:54+0000

More NIC's and second (or third) graphics card for passthrough. Some external power buttons also use a expansion slot.

oliv_r · 2025-01-18T21:29:21+0000

m.2 expansion

Ruru · 2025-01-19T03:16:41+0000

SB Audigy2 ZS with modified drivers

oliv_r said:
m.2 expansion

We're talking about the original PCI here.

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It is 2025, you have a PCI slot you really want to fill, what do you stick in it?

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