Possible to use mini pci-e card in m.2 slot?

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This is the best forum category I could come up with for this.

I am considering upgrading to a skylake motherboard from my haswell one, primarily to increase my RAM from 16GB to 32GB. This is a mini-ITX system, so only 2 RAM slots are possible.

My only hesitation is that the mobo which best fits my needs has an m.2 slot, whereas my current machine has a mini pcie card slot. I am using a mini pci-e card which will not be ever made as an m.2 card, and I want to keep using it if possible.

I have seen a few adapters to convert a mini pci-e slot to m.2, but none that go the other way around. Has anyone seen this, or have any alternative ideas on how to do this?

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As long as the m.2 is wired to the Pcie (pay attention to that some are SATA only) and if there is an adapter in existence? Then yeah it would work.

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So this?

Clearance will be an issues

What card are you using that is mpcie
And why not just get a 2x16gb ddr3 kit?

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I believe the item you link to goes in the wrong direction, unless I am mistaken. I did however find the product I was looking for here:

https://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/M-2-NGFF-to-mPCIe-Extender-Board/706012_1761180901.html

The mini pci-e card I have is for firewire. I am planning to buy a presonus audio interface that uses firewire. The product I have is this:

More interestingly though - what are these 16gb RAM chips of which you speak? My motherboard (gigabyte h87n wifi), along with all other *87 series motherboards to my knowledge, lists a maximum memory of 8gb per slot. Is it possible to surpass this?

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If you just need one FireWire port couldn't you use something like this?

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I thought Firewire couldn't be directly converted to USB because of different styles of data transmission?

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Correct, it cannot be converted.

I have no idea what that product from ebay does, other than cost you $3.64 :-) it might be able to pass power through but that's it.

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Yeah your board only supports 16gb of system ram officially, dont know if a 2x16gb kit would work

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Is that not true of all haswell boards? (as opposed to haswell-e or other board supporting ECC / Registered memory)

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I brain farted, the 2x16 kit i saw was ddr4 the ddr3 stuff is registered ecc and i know nothing of that stuff