Robin Goodfellow
11-18-2014, 10:43 AM
I've been struggling to find a videocard for a motherboard that was gifted to me. Not knowing a lot about PCs, it's been a bit of an uphill battle.
Based on guidance here, I bought a PCIE card last week at the recyclers, only to find that it it didn't actually fit in the PCIE slot of my mobo.
WTF?!?! Frustrating.
But, as many of you dear readers already know, all PCIE slots are not the same size, and a PCIE 16x card will not fit into a PCIE <16x slot.
While reading and trying to understand more about this, I learned a little piece of trivia: The first connectors on a PCIE card are the core-functionality, and the rest are sets of additional data paths. They increase performance, but are otherwise unnecessary.
And according to reports online, the excess contacts can be cut off if they're in the way.
So, I painstakingly counted the pins I needed, and used a dremel to cut off the rest of the card edge.
Then put my newly converted PCIE 4x card into the PCIE 4x slot.
And presto, it worked, without sparks or fire.
Don't know if this is common knowlege... but thought I'd share.
Based on guidance here, I bought a PCIE card last week at the recyclers, only to find that it it didn't actually fit in the PCIE slot of my mobo.
WTF?!?! Frustrating.
But, as many of you dear readers already know, all PCIE slots are not the same size, and a PCIE 16x card will not fit into a PCIE <16x slot.
While reading and trying to understand more about this, I learned a little piece of trivia: The first connectors on a PCIE card are the core-functionality, and the rest are sets of additional data paths. They increase performance, but are otherwise unnecessary.
And according to reports online, the excess contacts can be cut off if they're in the way.
So, I painstakingly counted the pins I needed, and used a dremel to cut off the rest of the card edge.
Then put my newly converted PCIE 4x card into the PCIE 4x slot.
And presto, it worked, without sparks or fire.
Don't know if this is common knowlege... but thought I'd share.