There’s a correct way to solve the problem. You can get a GPU dock for like $100-300. Or you can get a long PCIE riser for like $20, and hook up an unused PSU and jump the start pins on the ATX cable with a paperclip. There’s a correct way to use multiple psus too, but I had a paperclip and didn’t have a jumper cable. Anyways it’s stable enough that uptime is at a year and it hasn’t started a fire yet.
I’m not saying I have a better solution or a better setup at home. I’m doing something extremely similar. I would 100% say that my solution sucks… But it works.
There’s plenty of ways to do it.
I wanted to get an x16 to dual oculink 8x connector card with a matching dock, so I wouldn’t have to give up any bandwidth while getting high end graphics going, but I can’t find anything that fits that bill. So I have a riser cable bodged together with the case of my system perpetually open.
It works. I don’t love it, but I don’t have the time/money to find/buy what I feel would be more ideal. So this is what I’ve done.
I don’t want to give up half the PCIe lanes and I can’t find a way to do that with anything that’s not a riser cable.
No integrated graphics. The server has a pair of old E5-2695 v4 CPUs and I picked up an 3060 to run some local AI but it didn’t fit in the 2u chasis even though I had a spare PCI-E slot. Absolutely would not recommend a single part of this setup.
On one hand my instance is hosted on a mostly self-contained box, but it does have a GPU hanging out the back
Thanks, I always wondered how other people solved this exact problem.
Now I know.
Poorly.
Carry on.
There’s a correct way to solve the problem. You can get a GPU dock for like $100-300. Or you can get a long PCIE riser for like $20, and hook up an unused PSU and jump the start pins on the ATX cable with a paperclip. There’s a correct way to use multiple psus too, but I had a paperclip and didn’t have a jumper cable. Anyways it’s stable enough that uptime is at a year and it hasn’t started a fire yet.
I’m not saying I have a better solution or a better setup at home. I’m doing something extremely similar. I would 100% say that my solution sucks… But it works.
There’s plenty of ways to do it.
I wanted to get an x16 to dual oculink 8x connector card with a matching dock, so I wouldn’t have to give up any bandwidth while getting high end graphics going, but I can’t find anything that fits that bill. So I have a riser cable bodged together with the case of my system perpetually open.
It works. I don’t love it, but I don’t have the time/money to find/buy what I feel would be more ideal. So this is what I’ve done.
I don’t want to give up half the PCIe lanes and I can’t find a way to do that with anything that’s not a riser cable.
So here I am.
Oh I had a gaming computer once with two PSUs like this once.
Is the integrated graphics card broken or are you running something that needs more GPU? Graphics or AI?
No integrated graphics. The server has a pair of old E5-2695 v4 CPUs and I picked up an 3060 to run some local AI but it didn’t fit in the 2u chasis even though I had a spare PCI-E slot. Absolutely would not recommend a single part of this setup.
Quite a few desktop CPUs dont have integrated graphics