Will cards work in MCP73T-AD?

[Chasm325]

I have a SYBA USB 3.0 & SATA 6Gbs PCI-Express x2 Card(SD-PEX50055) card that I would like to install for a SSD and also the USB upgrade. Also have a PNY NVidia GEFORCE GT 730(VCGGT7301D5LXPB) 1024MB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 that I would like to use. Both are low-profile and will fit on the mobo physically. Am I going to be able to get this working? I think it will make a nice media box or something. Okay, I know it's old, but I love the looks and size of this little computer(ACER Aspire x1700-3700u). It has always been my favorite out of all the computers I have ever owned. Heck, I'm old too and I don't want anyone to throw me away. Do any of you very knowledgeable people on Toms have any thoughts about these cards working correctly for me? I also have a second one that I may try to put a new mobo in and start from scratch. Thanks to all of you who have helped me in the past.

 

[joex444]

Your board offers x16 and x1 slots. You can fit the GPU just fine in the x16 slot, but the other card is a PCIe 2.0 x4 card. It won't fit in the x1 slot. Quite frankly, PCIe 2.0 x1 only offers 500MB/s (5Gbps) so it can do USB3.0 only, or it could implement only SATA-III but it would still limit an SSD. If you already have the SSD, then I'd just connect it to the on board SATA ports (yes, they're almost certainly 3Gbps). You still get the access time benefit over a HDD, and as a media box you probably rely on network access for the most part and even over 1Gbps Ethernet, the 3Gbps SSD connection is far more than the network can handle so you aren't limited by anything here except the network.