If you ever looked at a PCI to PCIe x16 adapter and wondered what’d happen if you were to stick a modern PCIe GPU in it, the answer apparently is ‘it works’ according to an attempt by ...

Mini PCI was designed for peripherals such as network adapters in laptops, but also wound up in DVD players, HDTVs and other devices. Type I and II cards have 100 pins, while Type III has 124.

Also called a "graphics card" and "video card," modern display adapters are graphics processing units (GPUs) that use the PCI Express bus (earlier interfaces were PCI and AGP). Display adapters ...