Hi,
you guys know any cool chassis to fit 7+ cards?
Gonna extend my system with 1/2 of those beauties:
https://peine-braun.net/shop/index.php?route=product/category&path=66
All i can imagine atm is to buy 2 server-chassis and use the bottom one as “pcie expander”, the top one for mainboard and connect them with pcie ribbon cables.
Thx & Cheers
Most chassis will hold seven pci cards? Do you mean seven multi-slot gpus?
Look at rack mount GPU compute chassis, they’re going to be expensive!
Thx for your reply gordon,
not all are multi-slot and i need (front/rear)-access to all of them.
12 slots width is my “minimum”.
Maybe something like this:
https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/system/4U/4029/SYS-4029GP-TRT2.cfm
but without the pcb and hhd-cages.
Here’s a chassis with the PCIe switch integrated. It attaches to the host with a PCIe card which adapts a slot to an external cable.
Nice find!
thx for your search!
5k for less then what i get from C_Payne’s PLX switches?
or do i overlook something?
Buy the chassis from C_Payne then? Are they also offering the external interface card, to extend the bus from one chassis to another?
Well, i hopefully don’t need a “external interface card” for that 30-50cm if you mean redrivers, but yeah he also has redrivers.
A chassis is what i need!
None exist, there’s no demand for such a thing. What you want is going to be custom made, and there’s two ways about it. First option, buy the super expensive external chassis, second, do some in-house metal working…
Cheapest way is modifying a big chassis to hold a second chassis inside it, like one of those double wide cube cases. Cut down a cheapo second chassis so it’s pretty much just the skeleton that holds cards, and weld / rivet it in opposite the main section. Shouldn’t need any complex tools, just basic angle grinder, pop rivet tool, some flat files for the sharp bits, drill, HSS bits, etc.
In industrial applications where you need a lot of PCI cards, an external chassis is used for just the cards. The processor board stays in its own box, shielded cable connect the two, hence the “external interface card.”
Here’s another chassis from One-Stop, you can see the insides a bit better. This would sit next to the chassis containing the processor, and a cable connects the two.
yeah, looks like i have to go that “custom made” route.
As a plus: i can buy some tools for my garage 
This is also an option:
https://www.protocase.com/products/electronic-enclosures/rackmount.php
Don’t know much about the pricing, but can’t be super expensive…
This topic was automatically closed 273 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.