Even maxing out the ports won’t be a problem. Even 6 gigabit ports don’t saturate a PCIe Gen 3 X1 slot in terms of bandwidth. But will the card work at all if all the physical pins are not connected electrically to the slot?
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cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
If you don’t want to risk modifying the slot, try one of the cheap PCIe risers on amazon and send it back if it doesn’t work. You will need a case with a couple of extra slots under the motherboard in order to fit the riser in there though.
It will run slower, but that probably won’t be an issue unless you plan to max out all 4 ports simultaneously.
marauding_gibberish142@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
marauding_gibberish142@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I cannot see any decent PCIE X1 to X16 risers on amazon. Everything is USB based which I don’t want
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
They are not USB based, they just happen to use a USB 3 cable to carry the PCIe signals.
marauding_gibberish142@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Oh. I thought they were using USB. Thanks
Nollij@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
USB the protocol, or just uses a USB cable? If it’s not using the protocol, the cables are a cheap way of getting cables of a certain spec.
marauding_gibberish142@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I thought they were using the USB protocol. Thanks
i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
I did this but buying these on Amazon is scary. Try to find one that won’t burn your house down.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Yeah, I definitely wouldn’t recommend putting something power hungry like a GPU in one of these. A NIC will be fine though.
i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
The ones on Amazon are intended to run GPUs for crypto farms, but they’re all brands you’ve never heard of with dubious claims and they’ve all got at least one review where either the device was defective or something was installed incorrectly and it caused damages.