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Yes, dumb indeed ... however: The insane bit about PCIE is that this card may actually still work. Automatic PCIE link negotiation will find a surprisingly narrow link width of somewhat less than 16 lanes, but that'll be it.

It's not like this guy invented this kind of duh-it-yourself ...

http://www.dau-alarm.de/g_sonst.html

(German, but the pictures mostly speak for themselves.)
 
Originally posted by: Peter
Yes, dumb indeed ... however: The insane bit about PCIE is that this card may actually still work. Automatic PCIE link negotiation will find a surprisingly narrow link width of somewhat less than 16 lanes, but that'll be it.

It's not like this guy invented this kind of duh-it-yourself ...

http://www.dau-alarm.de/g_sonst.html

(German, but the pictures mostly speak for themselves.)
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You know what, you just may have a point.

This card would probably work in a PCI-e 1X slot (slow?), a PCI-e 4X slot (may still be quite fast) and possibly even a PCI-e 16X slot (depending on if it could deal with the loss of something like 4 lanes due to stupidity).

I remember reading a review where they did SLI with a 16X slot and a 4X slot on a NF4 Ultra board.

Hmmmmmm....
 
Presuming that all that got cut off are PCIE signal lanes, then of course it'd still work in a 16x slot.

In fact, everyone running an SLi mainboard is doing exactly that, with their twin 8x slots - only that in this case, lanes 8-15 are unconnected on the mainboard end. Chipsets that don't offer more than four lanes on the secondary slot (Intel, VIA) can nonetheless use the mechanical 16x slot, wiring only lanes 0-3 and leaving 4-15 unconnected.

In any such case, PCIE link negotiation will figure out that not all possible link width is hooked up, and will automatically degrade to what's been found working. In fact, you could even wire just 1x to your graphics card slot and it'd still work without any software intervention.

Having lanes missing on the graphics card instead ends you up in the same situation. As demonstrated by that PCIE 1x graphics card from Matrox, btw.
 
ROFLMAOPMP best i hve ever read, nvidia pushing its fabs to provide enough 7800gtx to consumer market and this guy decide he can surpass nvidia engineers card design slicing some connectors.
 
Originally posted by: Peter
Yes, dumb indeed ... however: The insane bit about PCIE is that this card may actually still work. Automatic PCIE link negotiation will find a surprisingly narrow link width of somewhat less than 16 lanes, but that'll be it.

It's not like this guy invented this kind of duh-it-yourself ...

http://www.dau-alarm.de/g_sonst.html

(German, but the pictures mostly speak for themselves.)
Click to expand...


lol the comps are so dirty ~!!!! it's horrible !
 
FFS!!!
The picture f that 7880 is FAKE!

From Image information:
ITEM: Software
VALUE: Adobe Photoshop CS2 Windows.

And when you resize the image you cleary see traces of tampering above the blue line.
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And if you look closely you can also see the "edges" around the fake-background

Terra - Someone tampered with that image...and too many people belive anything they see/hear..
 
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