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First of all, this is for a GPGPU project so I only need a very small amount of bandwidth. The bandwidth for PCI and PCI-e 1x slots are several orders of magnitude more than I need.

Some people have made a PCI-e 1x to PCI converter. With some simple hacks I can make a PCI-e 16x to PCI-e 1x converter.

The question is, if I plug in a GPU (Radeon 5870) into the PCI slot using this method, will it be recognised by the computer's BIOs and by the AMD fglrx proprietary driver?

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  • Do it already and post the results.
    – Ярослав Рахматуллин
    Nov 7, 2012 at 0:06
  • Fine, it worked exactly as expected, managed to get 4 5870's into one computer and started mining bitcoins on them at the same time (using poclbm)
    – Callum Rogers
    Nov 7, 2012 at 1:25
  • Wow, I've never heard of this decentralized currency concept before. This is awesome! Btw, answer your own question and throw in some details (and sources) about PCI-e being backwards compatible with PCI.
    – Ярослав Рахматуллин
    Nov 7, 2012 at 2:51
  • Oops, this question is so old I forgot to read it properly; no, I did not try putting a PCI-e into PCI, but PCI-e 16x cards into PCI-e 1x slots by heavily modifying a 1x extender. I really do not think using a gfx card via a PCI slot will work unless you heavily modify the driver it runs on.
    – Callum Rogers
    Nov 7, 2012 at 8:48
  • Not posting as an answer because I haven't tried it but I see no reason why it shouldn't work. PCIe and PCI are much the same from a software perspective and the electrical differences can be easily handled by a bridge chip (which is what is on those adapter cards)
    – plugwash
    May 29, 2017 at 22:59

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