Poor Man's PCIe switch

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Ethan Waldo

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I've stumbled across IEI's SPXE-11S :: IEI which has 6 PCIe Gen3 ports attached to a PEX 8724. Even though this is a backplane part, I'm wondering if this could also be used standalone as a poor man's 6-port PCIe switch.

Does anyone know if there would need to be firmware changes to be able to control host vs. endpoint per port? Are there any other known cheap PCIe Gen3 switches, Gen2 worse case scenario?
 

BeTeP

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What's your application? Do you need multi-host support? And define "cheap" - it certainly means different things to different people.
 

Ethan Waldo

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Application is varied. multi-host without NT. Those things run less than $500 which to me is dirt cheap were it to work. $1k would be pushing it for an unknown part.