PCIe to USB to PCIe

2015-09-04 Thread Dieter BSD
A very small PCIe x1 card with USB 3.0 controller, a USB cable, and a small pcb with a PCIe x16 slot. Intended to allow using x16 video cards with x1 slots, and reducing power/space/cooling demands on mainboard. Claim: "No Driver necessary" Can these things possibly work? If they do, it seems

Re: PCIe to USB to PCIe

2015-09-04 Thread Michael Fuckner
Hi, I don't see any active components, so I believe it is still PCIe (just via an USB Connector) Regards, Michael! On 9/4/2015 6:06 PM, Dieter BSD wrote: A very small PCIe x1 card with USB 3.0 controller, a USB cable, and a small pcb with a PCIe x16 slot. Intended to allow using x16 video

Re: PCIe to USB to PCIe

2015-09-04 Thread Jan Bramkamp
On 04/09/15 18:06, Dieter BSD wrote: A very small PCIe x1 card with USB 3.0 controller, a USB cable, and a small pcb with a PCIe x16 slot. Intended to allow using x16 video cards with x1 slots, and reducing power/space/cooling demands on mainboard. Claim: "No Driver necessary" Can these

Re: PCIe to USB to PCIe

2015-09-04 Thread CeDeROM
Its not USB but Thunderbolt [1] that gives you the display and 4xPCIe over the wire, but its far slower and far more expensive than USB3 :-) [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_(interface) -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info ___

Re: PCIe to USB to PCIe

2015-09-04 Thread Hans Petter Selasky
On 09/04/15 19:01, Michael Fuckner wrote: Hi, I don't see any active components, so I believe it is still PCIe (just via an USB Connector) Regards, Michael! Hi, Maybe it is running the VESA BIOS code on the cards, making them usable. Is this device supporting the USB video class