1920x1080 resolution with mga driver [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Daniel O'Connor darius at dons.net.au
Wed Mar 30 09:36:52 UTC 2011


On 30/03/2011, at 19:32, Erik Trulsson wrote:
>> Ahh neat, thanks :)
>> The other option is to hack off half the pins of a 16x card. Just
>> don't expect a monster high power card to work, but a low power one
>> should be fine.
> 
> Actually I think all of those extra pins are for signals and not for
> power, so the only thing you would lose with a 'shorter' slot is
> performance.

Hmm I thought it was both but apparently not.

> Another thing you could (at least in theory) do is the remove the
> rearmost bit of plastic from the slot on the motherboard so a longer
> card could fit.   I do know that there exist some motherboards with

There is also..
http://www.adexelec.com/pciexp.htm

> 'open' rear-ends of PCI-E x4 slots precisley to make it possible put a
> longer card there.  (Assuming it does not interfere with any other
> components on the motherboard anyway.)

Interesting.. I'd prefer to modify a $50 video card instead of a $300 motherboard though :)

> The general rule with PCI-E is that if you can physically fit a card
> into a slot it should work. (Althouh there do of course exist
> exceptions with some cards and motherboards.)

Yeah.

> 
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