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Kevin Karhan :verified:<a href="https://freiburg.social/@3rz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@3rz</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@Gammitin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@Gammitin</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/@rasteri" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@rasteri</a> The problem may be that there are no PCI-X / 64bit <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PCI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PCI</a>-><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PCIe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PCIe</a> chips available (at a reasonable price) to warrant such cards.<ul><li>Chips like the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PEX8112" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PEX8112</a> <a href="https://github.com/OS-1337/tiny486/blob/main/documentation/external/PEX8112.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">make it relatively easy</a> to adapt PCI->PCIe so entry-level Graphics Cards could be made with new GPUs that only support <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PCIexpress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PCIexpress</a> and get some lifetime out of an old system.</li></ul>I had an <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ATi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ATi</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/HD3450" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HD3450</a> from Sapphire with that bridge-chip that I got for a low-end system back in 2009. <ul><li>Unlike <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ISA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ISA</a> there isn't much of a hard dependency that kept 64bit PCI / PCI-X around for long and PCIe is certainly the superior interface and 1:1 software compatible and transparent to the underlying OS.</li></ul>

Kevin Karhan :verified:<a href="https://infosec.exchange/@reverseics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@reverseics</a> Classical <a href="https://bitbang.social/@NanoRaptor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@NanoRaptor</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Shitposting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Shitposting</a> aside: This is technically possible even outside <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/S100" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#S100</a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ISA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ISA</a> & <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PCI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PCI</a> buses.<ul><li><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PCIexpress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PCIexpress</a> [tho usuallly only ISA+PCI)-based <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/backplane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#backplane</a> systems are not only common in <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/industrial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#industrial</a> setups but perfectly possible.</li></ul>If I had more money than sense I would've build something <a href="https://github.com/KBtechnologies/UltraStation" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">similar</a> to <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/sgi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sgi</a>'s <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NumaLink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NumaLink</a>-based systems with the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/UltraStation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UltraStation</a>.Embrace the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/CHONK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CHONK</a>|ER! <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo3lUw9GUJA" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo3lUw9GUJA</a>(Also available as a smol pizzabox!)

IT NewsPCIe For Hackers: External PCIe And OCuLink - We’ve seen a lot of PCIe hacks on Hackaday, and a fair few of them boil down to ha... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2023/12/13/pcie-for-hackers-external-pcie-and-oculink/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://hackaday.com/2023/12/13/pcie-for-hackers-external-pcie-and-oculink/</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/hackadaycolumns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hackadaycolumns</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/computerhacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#computerhacks</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/pciexpress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pciexpress</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/oculink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#oculink</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/pci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pci</a>-e <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/pcie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pcie</a>

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