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Originally Posted by nubie
To sum up, PCI-e buses are teamed serial connections comprised of 1 to 32 "links" (desktop PC's have at maximum 16 links per connector NTI--PCI vs PCI Express / Bus Speeds ). I wanted to hook up multiple displays with cheap readily available cards (and not saturate my PCI bus).
I learned that the PCIe standard auto-negotiates links and determined that I could operate a card on a single link. If I had any motherboards with a x4 connector I would have likely tried that, but x1 is the "standard". |
A better solution is to just take a piece of bare wire (AWG22 or so), heat it up with a soldering iron, and use it as a hot knife to open the back of the slot. Then you don't need to modify the card at all.
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