Several months ago, I looked at a common hardware component used by bitcoin miners and the thought occurred to me: this might be useful for creating additional seats. So I went to eBay and purchased one, tested it, and uploaded a short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxg4gEKlgAI The long story short is, it works fantastic. I have a motherboard with only two PCI-Express 16x graphics slots on it, so that's my theoretical limit for seats: 2. But because I also have a single 1x PCI-E slot I can take advantage of that and use the riser to plug in an additional third 16x card, giving me a third seat. My thoughts are that if at all, this setup would primarily be useful for anybody who has a motherboard with only one single 16x slot on it. That would negate buying a whole new computer or even another motherboard if you are against such a thing. Just add in another 16x slot using a 1x slot. Just be warned, this setup cannot be used for high end gaming on the second slot. One single PCI-Express lane has more than enough bandwidth for day to day desktop or internet usage, but it would be bandwidth starved with a large real-time 3d workload. All gaming would have to be in connection with whatever video card is in the first slot.
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10/23/2020 02:30:06 pm
Manjaro 20.1.1 and later are broken for USB connected multii-seat -X returns failure to provide a display. Do you by chance have Manjaro 20 installed? I tried the PCI card using a Nvidia 6200 and Manjaro on it is unstable. Curious if Manjaro is working with any of your add on PCIe cards?
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