Linus is good at marketing (why he’s so big) but I’d take any real advice from him with a grain of SALT TRUCK
The only way to really sneak things in for you would be a straight up ribbon cable but then I’d say there isn’t enough copper in the ribbon to really function.
Kinda comical you have 7 full length and are looking at this but goes back to one of my GPU rants where I say 'DID YOU ASSUME MY USE CASE BRO~?" and I wish more boards had more slots rather than onboard all in one garbage. 7…naw how about 12 or 15?
There are three things in life you can never get enough…memory, slots and bandwidth. Threadripper certainly eases the pain, but can’t just quench the thirst forever
I might have just the thing! I’ve got one of these in my build right now after I installed two of the most recent release GPU’s that currently occupy 2.5-3 slots each, taking up literally my whole board worth of slots. I really dislike this new trend of thick GPU’s, personally!
No issues so far. I had two in my build at one point. One was used for a Wi-Fi PCIe card and another for a USB PCIe card, but I was able to get rid of the Wi-Fi card recently so cut down to one.
I was hoping to find a similar x4 or x16 riser cable of sorts that could fit under a GPU like this one can so I could go with a higher bandwidth USB PCI card.
I will report back if I find a suitable x16 riser cable that could fit under a GPU somehow, but I’m seriously doubting it’s been done. I may just need to consider mounting one of these GPU’s vertically as suggested above. It’s doable with my case, but wouldn’t be my preferred method.