So, a lot of people have asked about using a discrete graphics card in a thin mini-itx board, but the problem is always the 25W provided by the 4x PCI-E slot being insufficient to run the card. Has anyone ever tried a powered PCI-e 4x to 16x riser cable? Something like this ? Provided it was a shielded cable like the Li-heat ones, should this be sufficent to work? I know bitcoin miners have been running full power graphics cards off of 1x slots for a while using this but don't know if it has been looked at from a uSFF point of view.
Ideally someone would make one that would allow the 16x orientation to be reversed (to allow for the CPU fan and the graphics card fans to face the same direction) but that's probably pushing it... QinX, iFreilicht lol?
Ideally someone would make one that would allow the 16x orientation to be reversed (to allow for the CPU fan and the graphics card fans to face the same direction) but that's probably pushing it... QinX, iFreilicht lol?
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