Will Mini PCI Express fit in a larger PCI slot?

zippycorners

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Hi, quick question here:

Will a Mini PCI Express card fit in a larger PCI slot?

I'm trying to buy this USB 3.0 Internal Connector
but I don’t have any more Mini PCI-e slots available on my motherboard.
The only slots I have left are:
• PCI slot
• PCI Express 3.0 x16 slot
• PCI slot

The motherboard I have is the ASRock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3.
I also have this Gigabyte Radeon HD 6950, which is a massive card and takes up a lot of space on my board. In addition, I have this Mini PCIe Wireless Adapter taking up a slot.

Here's a picture of everything so you can get an easy visual:
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So, since my GPU is covering up my other Mini PCIe slot (and I can't move it down because it would run into the PSU), I feel like I might be out of luck with the Mini PCIe USB 3.0 Internal Connector that I need. The only solution I can think of is to just buy it and see if it will fit in a regular PCI slot.

Does anyone know if it will?
 
Solution
That is not a mini pcie.

Mini pcie is used for laptop.

It is a pcie x1.

Don't get them confused.

You almost had me saying no because of the confusion but since it is a x1 not mini, it will work.