>>I would have thought that was a hoax without the testimonial! Who would
have thought that you could just go hacking away at complicated circuitry
with a cutoff wheel and it would actually work?!?!? I mean, the concept
makes sense, but wha?...
....
Well, PCIe is a serial bus. PCIe X16 is sixteen of those channels grouped
together. So I figured I could cut off 8 of them and it might work. I know
some of the early SLI motherboards would operate in 16-channel mode with one
card, or split the channels with two cards. That suggests that the cards
will operate in a 8 channel slot - if it would fit. So I ordered a card and
took a chance.
I would have preferred to get a 8 channel card, but I could only find 16
channel or single channel cards. 8 channel is slightly faster than AGP8x,
so it was worth a shot.
Ken Elliott
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-----Original Message-----
From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of michael hast
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2007 9:24 AM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Chopping Video card to fit server
Ken Elliott wrote:
>>> I would have returned it and bought somthing else.
>>>
>
> A client gave me the server in exchange for some consulting. I was
> thinking about selling it, since it's pretty loaded.
>
> OTOH, I got a powerful machine for $150 (video card).
>
> Ken Elliott
>
>
> Now that was cool. I would have returned it and bought somthing else.
>
> William
>
>
>
I would have thought that was a hoax without the testimonial! Who would
have thought that you could just go hacking away at complicated circuitry
with a cutoff wheel and it would actually work?!?!? I mean, the concept
makes sense, but wha?...
--Michael
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