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Will a pci ethernet adapter fit in my board?

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Helllearner

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hey guys i have a msi 785gt-e63 (Ms-7551) and a pci ethernet adapter (to put a lan wire and my internet both in my cpu). When i tried to put it in i saw that there was space left in my slot...... so will it work if some place is left in my slot (ending of the apater card in the cpu) and my nvidia 9800 gt is pretty close to that slot too will it heat up if it fits??

My motherboard photo
http://www.techfuels.com/motherboard/18799-msi-has-two-785g-ddr2-motherboards.html
 
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Just look at your motherboard. With modern Video Cards sometimes some of the PCI slots will be covered with the Video card taking up two slots. Sometimes you might be able to use a short 1X PCI-E slot. It may block the air flow a little bit. Often you can get shorter or smaller network cards.

There may be some PCI network cards that have 2 network adapters available on the same card.
 
i have space for it the fit in the slot close to my gpu but the problem is it fits in the slot but it doesn't occupy the whole slot there is space left behind. The card is shorter then my slot....if i fit it will it work?

will it fit in my pci slot that supports 3.3v/5v pci bus?
 
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I looked at www.newegg.com and they make a lot of pci Network cards that are only about 1 inch tall. There is no way to tell how good they will work unless you test them. I also saw some USB Network adapters both wireless and wired. You probably should not use USB unless you have USB2 at least.

Usually a 10/100 mbps network card is fine for a network card. You might have to pay a premium for a 10/100/1,000 mbps card, but I dont think they are really worth it or work any better.

I dont know why they put the PCI slot so close to the X16/video card slot.
 
Do you mean the interface isn't as long as the bus or that the shield out the back isn't big enough to fit the gap?
 
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