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I recently bought a cheap NIC which I think has a x8 PCI slot. On the box it says: "Compatible with PCI revision 2.1/2.2/2.3".

I want to use this in the MSI H81M-E34. On the site from MSI it says that the motherboard has 1x PCI 2.0 x16 and 2x PCI 2.0 x1 slot.

I searched on the web and almost everybody says that it's backwards compatible but it will not fit in either the x16 or x1 slots.

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You’re confusing “PCI” and “PCI Express”. They are not compatible. Your board does not have a PCI slot at all. So you cannot use this NIC.

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