Hi. I'm using Supermicro X10XRM-TF motherboard. I also have a GPU connected to it, a 2 slot GTX1080 video card. Apart from it, I also have a SAS card that I will soon connect, cause I bought SAS drives that are cheap.
I love this board, it almost have everything I need, several SATA as NAS, has PCIe x16, for my gaming, and 2 PCIe x8 for HBA controller, and possibly another more. It also has dual 10GBe NIC, BMC, also supports up to Xeon E5 v4. When others are playing games using the GPU, I oftentimes have to watch video via Emby. And if it requires transcoding, I will require a hardware to transcode it. My processor doesn't support Intel Quicksync. So my intention is to add another video card, passive for Emby to transcode via that GPU. But with my 2 slot GPU covering the other PCIe slot, and the final PCIe slot used for HBA controller for SAS, there seems to be no other way. I thought about ribbon risers, but I don't think there is enough clearance for my GPU to be plugged in on top of the ribbon cable, as the ribbon cable cannot be angled 90 degrees. Any suggestions? While writing this, I remember I do have a hard riser, something like below:
not sure if I use a combination of this, and the flat ribbon riser together, if result will be positive. The above riser will prop up the GPU higher, and allow the ribbon riser to go under it.
I'm also open to other ideas. Are there other risers that I don't know about?
I'm always amazed at how people are so creative in pushing their hardware to the limit. Adding more drives to places where there was no provision. Doing lots of stuff with limited hardware. I'm inspired by them . Currently, I'm not feeling very insipred. Hope someone can help. Not yet ready to let go of this combination of hardware
I love this board, it almost have everything I need, several SATA as NAS, has PCIe x16, for my gaming, and 2 PCIe x8 for HBA controller, and possibly another more. It also has dual 10GBe NIC, BMC, also supports up to Xeon E5 v4. When others are playing games using the GPU, I oftentimes have to watch video via Emby. And if it requires transcoding, I will require a hardware to transcode it. My processor doesn't support Intel Quicksync. So my intention is to add another video card, passive for Emby to transcode via that GPU. But with my 2 slot GPU covering the other PCIe slot, and the final PCIe slot used for HBA controller for SAS, there seems to be no other way. I thought about ribbon risers, but I don't think there is enough clearance for my GPU to be plugged in on top of the ribbon cable, as the ribbon cable cannot be angled 90 degrees. Any suggestions? While writing this, I remember I do have a hard riser, something like below:
not sure if I use a combination of this, and the flat ribbon riser together, if result will be positive. The above riser will prop up the GPU higher, and allow the ribbon riser to go under it.
I'm also open to other ideas. Are there other risers that I don't know about?
I'm always amazed at how people are so creative in pushing their hardware to the limit. Adding more drives to places where there was no provision. Doing lots of stuff with limited hardware. I'm inspired by them . Currently, I'm not feeling very insipred. Hope someone can help. Not yet ready to let go of this combination of hardware