What to do with a mini PCIe slot?

[alizee]

So my wife asked me to open up her Thinkpad and blow out the dust and such. Lo and behold, there's an Intel Turbo Memory card in the mini PCIe slot. Because her computer is running the school-mandated Windows XP (and because she has a decent SSD), I don't think it's doing anything for her; please correct me if I'm wrong.

So, I was thinking I might pull that out and put something a little more useful in there. Looking around, I can't find much besides wifi and bluetooth cards, of which she has both.

Any suggestions as to what to put in there?

Thanks in advance!

 

[EarthwormJim]

A broadcom decoder card? I think they require Vista or 7 to work though.

Is it actually a real PCIe slot and not electrically an ide slot, like they sometimes do to netbooks that use PCIe SSDs?

 

[alizee]

A broadcom decoder card? I think they require Vista or 7 to work though.

Is it actually a real PCIe slot and not electrically an ide slot, like they sometimes do to netbooks that use PCIe SSDs?

The decoder card would be a good thought, I didn't even think about that. It would compliment her GMA X3100 very well, too bad the only videos she watches hardly need accelleration.

I imagine it's a real mini pcie slot, it's a ThinkPad X61. The card is definitely a Turbo Memory card, which, as far as I know, only fits in a real pcie slot. Any other way to know for sure? I know it doesn't have a boot drive like a netbook, it came with a hard drive which I replaced with an OCZ Agility last year.

 

[poofyhairguy]

A broadcom is supported in XP:

http://www.broadcom.com/support/crystal_hd/

Add Flash 10.1 and it will seem like a new comp with streaming video!