These modems would often slot into a Mini PCI-e slot in the netbook motherboard. [delokaver] figured out how to use these 3G cards over USB instead. It’s actually a fairly straightforward hack.

A Mini Maker rep said that he saw a performance delta of just 5 percent between using the company's PCIe connection to its graphics box and using a standard desktop PC with the same graphics card ...

It is not unheard of for them to squeeze into the space on top of my PC case ... a range of superb mini PCs, has a new model, the GTi14, which comes with a PCIe 8x slot on the bottom of the ...

There’s also four mini-PCI-E slots along the top ... The Seaberry can easily be slapped into a mini PC case, and the power button and activity LEDs work just like you’d expect.