We are finalizing the video card. File

We all heard anecdotes about men who drank memory files with files so that they fit into the motherboard, this joke in different variations made us happy more than once ... However, I needed to count something here at my leisure (it’s full hard, but there’s a different story) - in the motherboard I have 3 pieces of PCI-E x16 (and 2 x1), but the bottom 2 are so that you can put only one card there (dual-slot), anyway. And you need 3 - count on two, and on the third so that the desktop does not slow down.

Then my gaze fell on the old man who helped me more than once - nVidia 8400GS (as I remember, they wanted to sell me the 8500GT, because faster, but I was resistant :-)), it remains to take the file and try to stuff it into the x1 slot ...

Habr already had an article (about how a slot cuts through the slot and the card interferes) - but I wouldn’t have a chipset with a radiator that would get off so easily (there was also no problem with determining the BIOS card) ... Therefore, I decided to go the only right way - not to fool motherboard, and cut the connector off the card :-) Let's go!

Diamond wheels from a well-known store come to the rescue - textolite cuts like butter and is clean enough. I do not recommend cutting “against the wool” - the rags of the copper layers will hang and can short-circuit. (Do not forget the glasses - if the disk breaks into the eye - it will not seem enough).

When I cut it - there was such a feeling of surrealism - still there was some kind of thrill before complex electronics even after all that I had already done with it, and here I was sitting, cutting a video card into pieces, all in the dust ...

On a cut through holes are visible. Next, it is necessary to chamfer the edges at 45 'so that the inner layers are not shorted - it will be more convenient to use a file (or the corresponding dremel nozzle, I have no idea what it is called), strictly “in terms of wool” (the board is at least 4 layers). We carefully look for rags of copper hanging where ... We

checked, turn it on ... The BIOS does not see the card. Then I started to get upset - however it would not be surprising - it's like a lobotomy - they chopped an ice ax, and we look or not it worked :-)

It turned out that the card tells the chipset which PCI-E bus it has by shorting the corresponding wiring - for x16, x8, x4 and x1 it is its own. The card itself tried to shorten the wires for x16, which we cut to the root. Well, nothing, look at the directory where there for x1, and carefully solder with a wire. We immediately fix the wire with a drop of glue - so as not to accidentally tear off along with the track.
Accordingly, the other end of the wiring (marked in blue the output to which to solder - I was soldered a little higher from the connector along the track).
Done, everything works - there is no noticeable decrease in speed, the video, the desktop, even Team Fortress are working :-) By the way, this is a rare example of the unity of Gigabyte and ASUS (the card was initially passive and constantly menacingly overheating, the fan from the first photo did not work, because there was no power on the connector as it turned out) :-)

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