Inspired by Klee's fancy long board, I went looking at brand name motherboards with soldered Celerons.
And stumbled on an interesting arrangement.
$80 for a mobo, $25 for the 4 in1 adapter. Searching on the forums seems you can comfortably run 4 VEGAs off this 4 in 1 PCI adapter. Obviously you still need your traditional risers and a way to power them.
Which makes me wonder. Why bother spending ~150 on a cookie cutter ASUS PRIME Z270-A, and ~50 on a G4400 celeron, plus the cost of DDR4.
In hindsight, I wish I went this route and stuffed it into my 4U case. Possibly maybe found a mini-itx board with 2 pci-e. To use 2 of those 4in1 expanders.
And stumbled on an interesting arrangement.
$80 for a mobo, $25 for the 4 in1 adapter. Searching on the forums seems you can comfortably run 4 VEGAs off this 4 in 1 PCI adapter. Obviously you still need your traditional risers and a way to power them.
Which makes me wonder. Why bother spending ~150 on a cookie cutter ASUS PRIME Z270-A, and ~50 on a G4400 celeron, plus the cost of DDR4.
In hindsight, I wish I went this route and stuffed it into my 4U case. Possibly maybe found a mini-itx board with 2 pci-e. To use 2 of those 4in1 expanders.