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Would the temperature and size be the only problem here? I am seriously tempted to try connecting your bigger PLX board to an M.2 slot via an ADT M.2->PCI x4 cable unless you can tell it is not going to work on just 4 lanes right away.
Damn, how did I miss your store link. I see you even have PLX splitters there, I wonder how those would show up in VFIO grouping for passthrough.
Those PLX splitters, let's say I am crazy and want to connect multiple PCIE cards to Intel Nuc that has an M.2 slot internally. I probably can buy...
So, if my goal is to get 8 PCIE cards working off a single motherboard, instead of trying to use every available slot and then splitting the last one one or two, I should instead only use slot combination that motherboard can provide with 16 lanes per slot and then use two of your x4x4x4x4...
I just found this thread and also C_Payne splitters on eBay. I ordered one just to experiment, and I got a few questions:
1) I see something that looks like a power connectors on the pictures. Does this mean they can provide additional power to the cards? I really want to use it with two 50w...