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I know there are similar questions to mine, but in this case I need to insert a mini PCIe card into a PCIe slot.

Summing it up, I have a mini-ITX motherboard with a PCIe x16 slot and I have a mini PCIe HDCP capture card.

Is there any way to insert this mini PCIe into the PCIe x16 slot? An adapter would be fine.

João Amaro
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Adapters do exist and are quite cheap. As little as $10 on eBay.
Mini-PCIe to PCIe-1x or PCIe-4x are most common and will fit in a PCIe-16x slot. (mini-PCIe can't have 16 PCIe lanes anyway.)
There are also "sets" consisting of an adapter and a min-PCIe WLAN card. You could take the WLAN card out and replace it with your capture card, because the converter is generic and will work with outer mini-PCIe cards.

Please note: mini-PCIe devices can use either PCIe or USB to make the connection. Be careful to buy a converter compatible with the variant your capture card uses. Not every converter can handle both variants.

Tonny
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