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PCIe X1 video
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Question : Why ?
Only PCIE x1 video cards are the professional Quadro Fire type cards and your best bet is off the bay.
Alternatively try this Zotac GeForce GT 730 Low Profile Graphics Card as its PCIE 1x card. Its on a competitors website so I cant list it but the Zotac model is ZT-71107-10L.
Google it and you will find it.
Only PCIE x1 video cards are the professional Quadro Fire type cards and your best bet is off the bay.
Alternatively try this Zotac GeForce GT 730 Low Profile Graphics Card as its PCIE 1x card. Its on a competitors website so I cant list it but the Zotac model is ZT-71107-10L.
Google it and you will find it.
I assume to add an additional monitor (as X99 has no onboard graphics you could otherwise use)
Don't believe there is anything recent, and be wary with the older Quadro's etc, as they need older drivers which don't necessarily coexist with current Geforce drivers (I know as I currently have a Quadro NVS290 1x for sale in the MM)
Another option could be to use a rigid PCI 1x to 16x adapter, and then use a low profile card (I also have a couple of these adapters in the MM).
2nd monitor and possible separate Physx.
5930 being used, just the mobo seems to want to disable the 3rd PCIe x16 if I use an M2 disk.
Might have to bodge an adapter for my GTX610.
Andi.
not worth it, you wont find any benefit from a PCIE1x GPU for physx. Especially a low card like a GT610
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I'm not 100% on this but I think you can turn any card into an x1 by removing or covering all sections of the PCI-e slot beyond the x1 terminals. Could physically cut them away or cover them with electrical tape possibly.
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you can disable it in the bios on some boards, pretty sure on my x99 deluxe i can pick 1,4,8,16x from bios options
Prime purpose is a second monitor
You can't fit a full connector into a x1 pcie without cutting a slot and that would be tricky I suspect.
Andi.
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what motherboard do you have?
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How many monitors are you running ? (I'm assuming 3 or 4 already)
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Well surely you would just run another monitor off your graphics card unless you already have 3 or 4 connected (whichever is the max for Nvidia / the card).
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You can just take out the very end of the PCI-e x1 slot with a scalpel, I've noticed some mobos have this flap removed anyway, probably for compute solutions or you can remove a lot of the PCB PCI-e interface tab with a hacksaw or whatever.
I'd probably mess it up personally but if you only need an input out, a gfx standard card can be had for pennies compared to buying a niche product like an x1 PCI-e card.
@OP Incase you thought of a cheap AMD card i would just like to add that if you go with one you will loose GPU accelerated PhysX. Doesn't matter if it's not the renderer and just a secondary card for a monitor or whatever the purpose might be. nvidia has been so kind to lock that down if a competitor's card aka AMD is detected. Tested this a few months back. Just a heads up incase you care about PhysX.
No, I just don't want to affect game performance in any way by having a second monitor for information display. This is however likely to be the resulting solution. I just knew I should have gone EATX
Andi.