Using PCI card in MacPro

Misguided, only PCIe is found and used in Mac Pro.

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  PCI Express - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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  PCI Express (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express), officially abbreviated asPCIe, is a high-speed serial computer expansion bus standard designed to replace ...

  
  

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  PCI - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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  PCI may refer to: Paralympic Committee of India Pharmacy Council of India, a statutory body in India Presbyterian Church in Ireland, a Protestant denomination in ...

  
  

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  Conventional PCI - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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  Conventional PCI (PCI is an initialism formed from Peripheral Component Interconnect, part of the PCI Local Bus standard and often shortened to just PCI) is …

  
  

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  PCI-X - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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  Confusion with PCI-Express. PCI-X is often confused by name with similar-sounding PCI Express, commonly abbreviated as PCI-E or PCIe, ...

  
  

Mac Pro directly supports PCIe cards only, nothing else.

card cages and extenders to get a PCI-X or PCI slot on you Mac Pro are prohibitively expensive just for an outdated sound card -- and there may be no appropriate drivers once you get it in a slot.