PCI-E Firewire card

Optio87

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I mistakenly bought a PCI card (which luckily was extremely cheap) only to realize it didn't fit into my MSI Z97 G45 mobo with PCI-E slots.
So I started looking for a PCI-E x1 card, however on every one I find the first connector tab closest to the actual ports looks to be the same size as the PCI connectors, and therefore won't fit.
Can someone shed some light on this? Because I am hella confused.
 
Hello... Firewire cards come in all kinds of "slots" and communication to the MB... the important trouble free recommendation I have is Making sure the Firewire chip is Made by TI Texas instrument... this is the rock solid designed 1394 Communications chip for all Firewire devices.
 
I have a GTX Gigabyte 970 that fits in perfectly, however I can't find any sort of card that will fit, despite being advertised as PCI-E. Are they different PCI-E connections?

 
Hello... the word 'typically" between professionals, is stating the standard practices, devices, science that is used in the "industry" "common knowledge" for ?... in one WORD... and will invite a discussion on why the "typical" will not work in this situation or problem he is having.
 

There are four PCIe connector lengths: x1, x4, x8 and x16.

You can plug any PCIe card in slots of the same or longer length. An x1 card would work in any PCIe slot length, except possibly the second GPU slot since Intel's CPU PCIe controller officially only supports down to x4 and plugging an x1 card in the second x16 (x8 electrical) slot would knock your GPU down to x8.