I have a portable gaming station that uses an external gpu adapter. I have a GTX560ti in an enclosure with a power supply that is connected to my Thinkpad x220 via expresscard adapter. There's a few forum communities devoted to this kind of thing, with the new agenda atm is to make use of Thunderbolt ports on new generation laptops.
http://www.hwtools.net/Adapter/PE4L.html
These aren't the specific parts I used for my portable battlestation, but it would be the ideal start to browse for parts that could be incorporated into an expresscard->usb adapter of some sort if someone were to try some experiments.
Topic: PCI-E Extenders -multiple cards per slot (Read 798 times)
PCI-E extender? Never heard of it.
Yes, I've seen the expressbox and those like it. That wasn't what I was after though - my question was whether you can break out a single PCI-E slot to separate cards or if each card needs its own slot.
All of the riser cables I've seen look like simple extenders (1:1). This has me wondering if it is 1:1 or not.
Thanks for the help
crudcat
All of the riser cables I've seen look like simple extenders (1:1). This has me wondering if it is 1:1 or not.
Thanks for the help
crudcat
Expensive, nonetheless good to know the options are available.
I'll stick with 6-7 cards per mobo with riser cables
I'll stick with 6-7 cards per mobo with riser cables
This might answer your question:
http://forums.hackaday.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=952
google is your friend ^^
http://forums.hackaday.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=952
google is your friend ^^
I've been reading up on using PCI-E extenders. My motherboard has one PCI-E 16x slot - is it possible to break this out into multiple 1x or 16x slots and load up a bunch of GPUs, or do I need one PCI-E slot on board per GPU?
crudcat
crudcat
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