Passively splitting a single PCI-E 16x slot into 16 PCI-E 1x slots

[crazyates]

Dude, your avatar kinda freaks me out.

On the other note - what's the point of "13 gpus" if your power supply cannot handle it?
Or you will have multi psu setup as well?

You can get large PSUs that can handle lots of cards.

[rascal777]

I can see where having a Cable Y adapter w/maybe an inline chip would be a great thing, because it would free up the limited motherboard selections that allow 4 or 6 GPU's

However, a main problem is the Windows OS + card drivers seem to currently be limiting the number of popular GPU cards to 6.

[ReCat]

I can see where having a Cable Y adapter w/maybe an inline chip would be a great thing, because it would free up the limited motherboard selections that allow 4 or 6 GPU's

However, a main problem is the Windows OS + card drivers seem to currently be limiting the number of popular GPU cards to 6.

Linux has a hard limit of 8 cards. I see reports of people using 13 on windows.

[micax1]

Linux has a hard limit of 8 cards. I see reports of people using 13 on windows.

Where you saw these reports? Thanks

[ReCat]

Linux has a hard limit of 8 cards. I see reports of people using 13 on windows.

Where you saw these reports? Thanks

Edit: I found it.

http://devgurus.amd.com/thread/158863

Original source is currently unavailable, but I have located i ton the web archive.

http://web.archive.org/web/20130429065445/http://fastra2.ua.ac.be/

[melmo]

If you Google for "diy vidock x2" you'll come across threads in which folks have combined 2 pcie x1 lanes into a single x2 connection for the purpose of connecting external videocards to laptops.  If they can do that, then surely we can do the reverse, right? 

Halfway down here: https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2019705/all you can see a photo in which someone has cables plugged into two mini pcie connectors on a laptop motherboard.