Can I put a PCIe network card into a PCI Serial Slot?

[ShadowFyrePlayz]

Budget (including currency): $75.94

Country: United States

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Legacy Gaming

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): Dell OptiPlex 330

DCSM TowerPC Intel Core 2 Duo, Network Card, Graphics Card, Windows Vista Ultimate License, WebRoot Antivirus

[ShadowFyrePlayz]

Idk if I need a PCIe to PCI Serial Adapter

 

[SupaKomputa]

Pcie should be plugged into Pcie slots not PCI.

Pci serial adapter is to plug a serial cable, it's not meant to adapt pcie to pci.

What do you want to do anyway?

You want to plug serial cable controller?

[Fasauceome]

16 minutes ago, ShadowFyrePlayz said:

DCSM TowerPC Intel Core 2 Duo, Network Card, Graphics Card, Windows Vista Ultimate License, WebRoot Antivirus

There's nothing a Core 2 Duo can do with a high performance network card. The CPU is way too slow to leverage high speed data transfer, and would gimp the speed of anything.

 

I'd you simply need internet access and the ethernet port of your PC isn't working, buy a cheap USB to Ethernet adapter.

[ShadowFyrePlayz]

no not really just trying to make a legacy Gaming Computer Running Vista on actual hardware from the time period Vista was in. Seems there are some adapters but they all seem to convert PCIe into PCI I dont know if thats what I need but I found a few listings on amazon that advertise their product as a PCIe to PCI converter/adapter type object, but I have no clue. I've only ever dealt with modern computers so Windows 8.1 to 10 is all I have dealt with. However I did have a Dell OptiPlex 755 slim tower but it doesnt turn on after so long of being a personal Minecraft Server. so basically I run all legacy Programs on Windows Vista Ultimate since its the closest to XP however while xp is more meant for the programs Im trying to run most of the programs arent compatible with XP so Vista is what I Use.

[ShadowFyrePlayz]

@Fasauceome

Im not using it to run Modern programs with higher requirements. Im using it to run Minecraft Java and older programs like the Elder Scrolls Oblivion and stuff from est 2001-2009 nothing more im also trying to browse the web but I dont usually go to the web often on Vista so yeah

[ShadowFyrePlayz]

I'm also running these things on older hardware so the network card is not a modern one its one thats made for Windows XP/Vista Im using hardware thats from est 2001-2010

 

[ShadowFyrePlayz]

11 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

There's nothing a Core 2 Duo can do with a high performance network card. The CPU is way too slow to leverage high speed data transfer, and would gimp the speed of anything.

 

I'd you simply need internet access and the ethernet port of your PC isn't working, buy a cheap USB to Ethernet adapter.

Im not running modern hardware with Vista Im running hardware from the 2001-2009 era so these programs could work furthermore I see adapters on amazon all the time

[SupaKomputa]

37 minutes ago, ShadowFyrePlayz said:

no not really just trying to make a legacy Gaming Computer Running Vista on actual hardware from the time period Vista was in. Seems there are some adapters but they all seem to convert PCIe into PCI I dont know if thats what I need but I found a few listings on amazon that advertise their product as a PCIe to PCI converter/adapter type object, but I have no clue. I've only ever dealt with modern computers so Windows 8.1 to 10 is all I have dealt with. However I did have a Dell OptiPlex 755 slim tower but it doesnt turn on after so long of being a personal Minecraft Server. so basically I run all legacy Programs on Windows Vista Ultimate since its the closest to XP however while xp is more meant for the programs Im trying to run most of the programs arent compatible with XP so Vista is what I Use.

 

Well for this you just need a PCIe to serial adapter, not PCI. Like this one.

 

Usually people just use USB to SERIAL converter, it's simpler and probably cheaper.

 

Usually motherboard from the core2duo era still has a serial port, so you don't need an adapter.