RE: [SLUG] Chopping Video card to fit server

From: Ken Elliott (kelliott11@cfl.rr.com)
Date: Sat Apr 07 2007 - 20:02:39 EDT


>> How much research did you do before going ahead?

Enough...<grin>

I studied the PCI Express docs, and mother board specs, and it looked like
it was likely. I discussed this with an nVidia graphics board engineer and
he admitted that the graphics chip had the ability to run in 8 channel mode.
He didn't like the idea of me cutting up the board, but said it was
possible.

Ken Elliott

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From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of steve szmidt
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2007 5:44 PM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Chopping Video card to fit server

On Saturday 07 April 2007 10:04, Ken Elliott wrote:
> I needed to put a new video card in a HP ML350 G4 server. But the
> server only has a PCIe x8 slot and all the cards are PCIe x16. I
> found I could cut part of the connector off the card. Here's pictures.
>
How much research did you do before going ahead?

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Steve Szmidt

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