I want in on that combo of cards lol.Meanwhile, I am enjoying 25Gbit transfer rate from and to my NAS and doing it at a sweet deal of $25 per Connect-X 4 card.
PCIE 3 x8 adapter for OCP 2.0 cards - $18
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I got lucky with the offer Mellanox CX4411A ConnectX-4 Lx 25GbE 25G SFP+ Mezzanine OCP Card MCX4411A-ACAN | eBay. At least you can bookmark that seller and do a similar offer if they pop up again.
It's fine. These cards are going to good use in my setup at home now. Plus if you really want to avoid China-manufactured goods, good on you. I have no complaints.Great insights that pretty much nails what I was trying to say. As far as finding out where a pcb came from, it would be easy because as you said most of it is coming from china and sloppy solder is sloppy solder. Also, most pcbs will say on them somewhere the country of origin, lol.
Yes, avoiding for going boom is a good thing. And it doesn't hurt that avoiding them also doesn't support 'not friendly to the Western world'.
Long live the chinese overlords...we pay you homage with our purchases...oh, bring your mighty way of doing things to the world and lift us out of darkness and into the light where ignorance is bliss until you cross a line and are eliminated overnight.
[sing in style of Billy Joel]
We didn't start the covid, it was always burning since the world was turning...
having a look at what I'm using right now. Converting OCP SAS 2308 and MCX341 to PCIe.
For some reason these remind me of those 'dimm stacker' adatpers for 30-pin simms to work in 72-pin sockets back in the day. They were great until prices dropped to the point no one cared for them anymore. It was a niche product for a niche time. I somehow think these will go that same way, and will also just be collector's items in the future.
I don't see it on their website, but I'm thinking moddiy.com could make whatever you want.
Any recent availability of such converter card?
I'm doing a 25Gbps project and bought a Mellanox CX4421A ConnectX-4 LX 25GbE SFP+ Mezzanine CX4411D OCP Card to use in a Thunderbolt 3 eGPU enclosure with macOS. But I need a OCP to PCIe adapter card!
I couldn't find anything via eBay.. Hoping to find something <$20. TIA.
I'm doing a 25Gbps project and bought a Mellanox CX4421A ConnectX-4 LX 25GbE SFP+ Mezzanine CX4411D OCP Card to use in a Thunderbolt 3 eGPU enclosure with macOS. But I need a OCP to PCIe adapter card!
I couldn't find anything via eBay.. Hoping to find something <$20. TIA.
Does this look right?
That circular cutout looks meant for a fan, whereas my card has a squarish heatsink. Not sure if it will clear.
My card:
Yea that looks right. I would leave the heat sink and attach the fan to the other side of the board (back) if you have room. I see that they have the 12v and 5V pins unsoldered. that's supposed to be for the fan. I believe this is the right one. There were two variants back in the day, one with and one without the buck converter. The one with the buck converter looks like this one which is the one you want.
Cool. Well OK, I ordered from AliExpress and will report back here if it is suitable.
Also, ping me again when you get it and don't have space on the back of the card for a fan. I designed an extension to mount a 4010 blower that I can dig up. We might have to make some adjustments since this board looks slightly different than the boards I have.
You might be fine without it. But these cards do run hot. Mine without a fan hits 75c
I am going to put it inside a eGPU, the Razer Core X Chroma which has a 120mm fan.
You're right about that. I made the blower fan adapter after seeing odd traffic spikes during file transfers. I haven't noticed since.
Anyone used dell server network cards for 13th/14thgen servers with one of these adapters? They look like they use ocp 2.0 but not sure if it's a modified standard with a different pin out or amything
Also, do any adapters exist for using Dell "mini mono" HBAs in a normal pcie slot? Haven't found much info by googling but not sure if that connector has a different name that I'm just missing
Also, do any adapters exist for using Dell "mini mono" HBAs in a normal pcie slot? Haven't found much info by googling but not sure if that connector has a different name that I'm just missing