StarTech PCI Express X1 to X16 Low Profile Extension Adapter (PEX1TO162)

looks great works great, though do your home work first make sure you have room inside the tower (esp) if you have a small form factor tower might be abit of a squeeze!

I used this for a simple old PCIe card. Works really well and never had a single issue. SAVED ME BUYING A NEW MOTHERBOARD!Bargain!

A sound piece of kit. Unfortunately the combined depth of my X16 low profile graphics card and this X1 adapter meant it wouldn't fit in my tower. The low cost of this adapter made it worth the gamble!

It works.

When I read the previous reviews I was sure I found the solution to my problem which was the connection of a 3rd pci-e x16 VGA card to my motherboard which has only 2 x16 slots.So I bought the product and tried to connect an ATI radeon HD5450 into a x1 slot through this adapter. Unfortunately, it didn't work as expected. The 3rd VGA never made it. The system didn't even recognize any device connected.I addressed the problem to the company's support [...] and I spoke to the live chat with an advisor. The following is a quote from what he typed to me:"The reason that the video card will not work with the PEX1TO162, is due to then bandwidth that the Video card requires to function. The PEX1TO162 is designed for use with device that do not require max bandwidth, like serial cards, and USB cards"and later in the same conversation:"Graphics cards that are not x16 based will work with the adapter. For example HD 4350"in addition"The card will work with X1, X2, X4, X8 and X16 based cards, however this is limited to the minimum bandwidth that that connecting card will require to function, so not all X2, X4, X8 or X16 cards will work with the PEX1TO162"and finally"It's more on if the bandwidth across the card can be compressed to a X1 level"I haven't yet tried an older VGA in the range suggested (4350 etc). When I have I will come back to comment some more.UPDATE: I tried an ATI RADEON X1600 256MB but it didn't work either. The slot is working properly because the fan of the card was working but still the VGA was not recognized by the system, as nothing was connected there. I finally returned the product.

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As far as I can tell there is virtually no degradation of the power of the graphics card you install, which makes it a must have if you're looking to upgrade an old motherboard.

bought pcie adapter card and it does not work on up to date motherboards as i have found out put it into an old mother board and it worked graphics card i bought it thinking it would solve my problem with ibis hsdl adapter card as they work of pcie x16 slot but did not even find it so it was a waste of money for me but would suit peoples old computers for extra pcie x16 slots

Appareil non fonctionnel. Il est néanmoins possible que cela soit du à un défaut du pilote de la carte (ajout de port USB) introduite sur le socket femelle du PEX1TO162. Donc prudence avant l'achat

Ho acquistato questo prodotto al fine di poter utilizzare una scheda di espansione silverstone usb 3.1 con pci-e x2 anche su un pci-e x1.Infatti dopo aver montato gli m.2 samsung (che richiedono un pci-e x4) mi erano rimaste solo pci-e x1 sulla mia Asus z97-a e cercavo proprio qualcosa di simile per non dover accantonare componenti che hanno sempre funzionato bene.Il pacco è arrivato nei tempi e ho provato subito a montarlo ma inizialmente non funzionava nel pci-e x1 mentre funzionava perfettamente in uno dei pci-e x16.Ho avuto il sospetto che il pci-e x1 non erogasse una corrente sufficiente e ho provveduto perciò ad alimentare il Silverstone separatamente .Inoltre , al fine di far funzionare il tutto anche su pci-e x1 ho dovuto entrare nel bios della mia Asus Z97-a e andare in Advanced/Onboard devices configuration e selezionando PCIeX1 (in PCI Express slot and M.2)Tutto ha iniziato a funzionare e subito ho testato una sdxc per vedere le prestazioni in scrittura e lettura. In allegato ho postato gli screenshot.Risolto il problema ho notato che l'attacco però risultava piuttosto ballerino in quanto il nuovo spessore rendeva inutilizzabile la piastra di fissaggio in metallo a cabinet e motherboard.Con una fascetta da elettricista ho fermato il tutto anche se il bloccaggio non è ottimale.Se come me avete bisogno di utilizzare schede pci-e x2, x4 o x16 su un piccolo pci-e x1 questo è quello state cercando. Ovviamente è una soluzione un pò ballerina e bisogna adattarsi.

I needed a way to add a graphics output to an already full server. This allowed me to attach a low profile cheap graphics card to the only 1x slot I had left. Now i have video output when needed on the cheap.

Had it running about a week now. So far nothing has caught on fire, despite having a fairly beefy GPU plugged into the thing. GPUz reports that it's happily running at PCIe 4.0 (x1, of course), but since the GPU'ss workload isn't exactly IO-heavy, I've no idea how stable that is.My only complaint is there isn't a good way to mount it to the case, but I'm not sure that would even be possible without interfering with whatever you're plugging into it.

Kurz und knapp, neue Grafikkarte, blockierte mir den einzig freien PCI-E 16 Slot für meine OPTANE SSD.Adapter verbaut, funktioniert...allerdings schaut das ganze ziemlich fragil aus, keine Ahnung ob es da eine bessere möglichkeit gibt das ganze "stabil" zu befestigen...