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Dan Neely19-Feb-10 2:34
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Daniel Desormeaux wrote:
Cut a notch? Seriously, Dan?


Yes. Totally. You could also cut out the back of the slot so that the card hung out the back; but oopsing on a mobo is more expensive than a bottom tier GFX card. Just make sure you make your cut past the last contact of the first lane and don't cut into the main part of the PCB.


Daniel Desormeaux wrote:
What the heck are the additional contacts for then?


The other 15 lanes. Smile | :)

PCIe devices will negotiate the number of lanes downward if they don't have full contact. At 16x card will run at 8, 4, 2, or 1x if it only has that many lanes available. Due to the limited number of lanes available on chipsets 16x physical/8 (or 4) electrical slots are common. High end cards will bottleneck severely in a 1x slot; but low end cards have much lower bandwidth requirements. In any event it's no worse than if you bought one of the highly overpriced cards that only have a 1x physical connector.
3x12=36
2x12=24
1x12=12
0x12=18

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