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Originally Posted by NiHaoMike
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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If you go to my photo album you will see that I did cut out the back of a PCIe x1 as well. It was the first step I took in trying the mod.
I figured it was better to modify a ~$20 video card than a ~$100 SLi motherboard (two x16 slots, and some x1 slots), so I can have 6 or more screens on one PC.
Also this card can be plugged into any motherboard instantly without voiding the motherboards warranty. As I have done several times already.
Honestly I am tired of discussing this, I did it two years ago and was fully aware of what I was doing.
In case you were wondering why, I realized that my single core PC could play back 3 HD streams simultaneously, and multi-core processors were becoming mainstream.
Also if you want to look into it there are several companies that will let you have multiple users and sessions on one machine, and I didn't care for PCI video cards as mentioned (they are 3 times the cost of the same chip on a PCIe bus, and getting more expensive all the time), not to mention the entire PCI bus is shared bandwidth and interrupts.