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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Those pcie x1 to x16 adapters also use one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh man I forgot about these from my mining days! Do people use these for actual pcie expansions? I've never needed more than most mid to high end motherboards offer

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I did it once with a mid atx that had only two slots but needed a card to boot and I wanted to put a networking card in the full sized slot so used one of these for the graphics card.

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