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PCIe 1 to 4 Riser Card, Pcie Splitter 1 to 4 PCI Riser Card, 4 Risers into 1 PCI Card, PCIe Multiplier Risers 1X to External 4 PCI-e USB3.0 Adapter for ETH Miner GPU Crypto Bitcoin Ethereum Mining Rig

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The ordinary folks not so well versed with the Crypto Mining or PC jargon can settle with calling them PCIe splitters. A graphics card that didn't take up the whole x16 slot might be acceptable if it's possible to use the last channel at the same time for a 1x riser or something, don't know if that's allowed. Since a typical motherboard and a case does not have the space to accommodate the multiple graphics cards that a mining rig uses, “risers” are used to install the graphics cards externally. I don't care that much about graphics bandwidth and I'd like to add USB 3.0 support. It's a waste to be using 16 lanes of pci bandwidth for a graphics card I hardly use, and I've found some convenient front panel usb 3.0 cards that only need a 1x pci slot.

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Having more PCIe slots means getting the opportunity to install more expansion cards for various uses. However, there are only two ways to increase the amount of PCIe slots you have: The entire setup will perform at the maximum supported speed of the host PCIe slot version and its lane count.I'd like some advice regarding how to get my single x16 slot to support a small graphics card plus a 1x or maybe 4x usb 3.0 card. Some front panel usb 3.0 cards take up very little space at the actual pci-e slot as the cards main board is in the front panel unit.

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So even if the PCIe version of the splitter card is V3.0, if the slot on the motherboard to which it connects is V2.0, the bandwidth will conform to that of PCIe v2.0. Also, @HoneyBadger I should clarify, the SLOG should be useful, it's intended for the main pool of SAS HDDs. I thought I'd partition the two M.2 SSDs so that two small partitions on each drive act as a mirror vdev for an SLOG cache, and the remaining two partitions could be mirrored as well, albeit for a different pool - git or whatever. It's just that whatever enterprise M.2 SSDs with data loss protection I find tend to be like 960 GB in size, and that's waaay too much for SLOG. I just dont want to waste the space of SSDs as expensive as that. Feel free to comment on whether I'm shooting myself in the foot with these partitioning schemes, but from what I've read, it should be ok. The power (12V and 3.3V) for each downstream (adapter) board is supplied via a female PCI Express connector placed on each of the PCI Express adapter boards. The power source for each add-in board can be either a x4 PCI Express host board via power cable, standard ATX power supply, or an external 12 volt power supply.Each MiniPCI Express Adapter has a standard MiniPCI Express connector for plugging in the MiniPCI Express expansion add-in board (downstream). The MiniPCI Express host board connects to the motherboard MiniPCI Express connector (upstream). The PCI Express flat cable (12 inches) is used for connecting the MiniPCI Express host board and MiniPCI Express Adapter boards, and it provides a flexible connection between the MiniPCI Express expansion add-in board and the motherboard. What would be perfect would be a low profile graphics card that had a pci riser onboard but I doubt this exists and would probably be over priced if it did. According to the wire charts for chassis wiring, these are the allowed capacities on these common wire sizes. So you cannot install four graphics cards on these and expect all of them to perform optimally for gaming. The performance will not even be close to optimal. Each graphics card is designed to use 16 PCIe lanes! They aren’t intended to be used on x4 slots for gaming, let alone on the 4-way split. Since there are 3 yellow leads carrying power on either a 6 or 8 pin cable, that works out to a max capacity of 192 x 3 = 576 watts for 18 gauge and 264 x 3 = 792 watts for 16 gauge.

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I think where most people get into trouble is when they start using SATA power cables to power either risers or GPU's directly, especially if they do more than 2 connections per SATA "string".

I have run many 1080Ti cards using both "A" cables as well as using 6 pin to dual 6+2 pin cables. It is all about the connectors and not really the wire itself. I've seen products that allow people to split the pci slots into their seperate channels. They appear to be purely mechanical devices. Use larger SSDs, and manually partition them to do double-duty as SLOG and a small separate pool. You'll get the separate pool you want, but you're now sharing the SSDs between SLOG (a 100% write workload) and another mixed R/W workload. Optane can handle this just fine, but other SSDs tend to experience a "bathtub curve" effect under a mixed I/O load - they do great at a 100% read or 100% write, but put them in the middle at 50/50 or 70/30 either way and you'll get significantly less performance. You're also at risk because the GUI/middleware won't consider the existence of those partitions if you have to replace a drive through that method - basically, it'll be up to you to manually recreate the same partition scheme and manually resilver should a failure occur. So, for instance, if the host slot has a bandwidth of 1 GB/s, but the bandwidth demand of the four connected devices on the splitter exceeds this amount, then you will notice performance issues. The x4 PCI Express host board connects to the x4/x8/x16 motherboard PCI Express connector (upstream). The PCI Express flat cables (12 inches) are used for connecting the host board and adapter boards. The cables provide a flexible connection between the x1 / x4 / x16 PCI Express add-in boards and the motherboard.

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While a splitter allows you to have more PCIe slots, an important point to remember is that you don’t get more bandwidth in doing so. The PCIe riser is most often used in the Crypto Mining circles. It is called a “riser” card because it lifts the installed cards above the motherboard. A single PCIe 2.0 lane has 0.5 GB/s of bandwidth. A single PCIe 3.0 lane doubles this number and thus has 1.0 GB/s bandwidth. And so on. Each consecutive PCIe version doubles the bandwidth compared to its predecessor. PCIe Splitter vs. PCIe Riser NFS does generate a sync-write workload, and you'll definitely feel the pain on smaller files/transfer sizes if that's kept on. There are many types of PCIe splitters, and they come in many configurations. The splitter above is an external PCIe splitter.The process results in several PCIe connections made available to the user, allowing for the installation of more cards than the motherboard would have independently allowed. Splitters Do Not Increase Bandwidth and Lane Count! The Flexible x4 PCI Express 4-Way Splitter was designed to expand your modern motherboard (ATX, mini ATX, etc.) with a limited number of PCI Express connectors. It allows you to connect up to four x1 / x4 / x16 PCI Express boards to your motherboard’s x4/x8/x16 PCI Express connector. I can appreciate the mad-scientist engineering here certainly, but it still scares me a bit and doesn't (directly) solve your mounting issue. You'd have to do some creative 3D printing/metalworking/etc to brace it in a desktop/tower, most likely. The Splitter includes four x1 (or x4, or x16) PCI Express adapter boards with PCI Express flat ”ribbon” cables, and one x4 PCI Express host board. The Splitter includes a MiniPCI Express Adapter board with a PCI Express flat cable (up to 2 boards), and MiniPCI Express host board.

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