What's occupying your PCI-e slots?

[crjackson2134]

you run any type of fan monitoring software? whats you expansion fan running at?

I've not had a need to monitor my fans. It's dead silent.

 

[Tutor]

I thought it would be fun to see what you guys have in your PCI-e slots...

Lots of CUDA and ATI OpenCL cards in every open slot.

 

[beaker7]

Quadro K5000
Netstor HBA for PCI-E Expansion -> 3 Titans, Red Rocket
Areca 1882 RAID card
Small Tree 2x10Gb Ethernet.

 

[bsbeamer]

depends on which machine I'm working on (and which client), but generally one of these configs:

GPU/graphics (GTX 680, 5770, 5870, x1900)
AJA Kona3 Card (or Blackmagic style equivalent)
CalDigit HDPro 2 Card (or SSD storage via PCIe)
empty, eSATA expansion, eSATA/USB3 expansion

 

[m4v3r1ck]

1. EVGA GTX-670 FTW 4GB (having fun in BootCamp Windows 8 Pro X64)
2. NVidia 8800 GT Mac Edition 512MB (bootscreen)
-> future Sonnet Tempo SSD Pro icw 2 Samsung SSD 840 EVO
3. spare for future swap NVidia 8800 GT from #2
4. empty with no closing peace = secret (wife-proof) piggybank for SSD setup

 

[bplein]

Mac Pro 4,1

1. NVIDIA GeForce GT120
2. Fusion-io ioDrive2 MLC
3. Fusion-io ioDrive SLC
4. Empty

 

[m4v3r1ck]

Update

1. EVGA GTX-670 FTW 4GB
--
2. Apricorn Velocity Solo X2
3. NVidia 8800 GT Mac Edition 512MB
4. empty -> Inateck KT-4004 USB 3.0 (?)

 

[Fangio]

A pretty much outdated Apple RAID Card in slot 4, capable of 2.5 GT/s only, and collecting dust.

Occupying is the right term for this thing. So many more attractive SATA 3 solutions available today..

 

[hfg]

Mine has evolved as well:

4: Inateck KT4004 4 Ports USB 3.0
3: Sonnet Tempo Pro (1TB SSD RAID-0 OS X Boot)
2: Solo x2 (512GB SSD Windows Boot)
--
1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 4GB (MacVidCards)




MacPro 5,1 2012 12-core 3.33GHz

 

[beaker7]

Currently:

2010 Mac Pro: (soon to be decommisioned)

4. Small Tree 2x10Gb Ethernet
3. Areca 1882 RAID card
2. Netstor HBA for PCI-E Expansion -> 3 Titans, Red Rocket
1. Quadro K5000

PC Workstation:

1. iofx 1.6TB
2. Intel X540-T2 10Gb
3. LSI MegaRaid 9361-8i
4. nVidia Quadro K6000
5. nVidia Quadro K6000
6. nVidia Quadro K6000
4. Red Rocket-X

 

[js81]

I thought it would be fun to see what you guys have in your PCI-e slots...

Dust.




(Sorry, couldn't resist. I don't even have a MP, but that's what is occupying the PCI-e slots in my old Dell lol)

 

[Fangio]

...outdated Apple RAID Card in slot 4, capable of 2.5 GT/s only,..

Seriously, I think of it as a wasted slot. Current config is

4. Apple Raid Card, 2 HDDs conntected as JBODs for Data
3. Velocity Solo x2, Samsung 830/256 (boot drive, apps)
2. ORICO PFU3-2P for USB3 (works fine here)
1. R9 280X, 2 HU

Sure it was nice to have when it came with the Mac Pro. It's a 2009 machine, reached about 200-220MB/s read/write with 2x 2TB Barracudas striped to RAID0 when I got it in 2012. I know the card has been expensive new but that isn't really competitive anymore by today's standards.

Maybe I should toss it overboard and free a precious slot for something more useful. Does anyone care to comment on this?

 

[mikeboss]

2009 Mac Pro
4: Inateck KT4004 USB 3.0
3: Axxon LF659KB RS232
2: Samsung XP941 256GB
—
1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 120



2010 Mac Pro
4: Inateck KT4004 USB 3.0
3: Axxon LF659KB RS232
2: Plextor M6e 128GB
—
1: ATI Radeon HD 5770

 

[m4v3r1ck]

Seriously, I think of it as a wasted slot. Current config is

4. Apple Raid Card, 2 HDDs conntected as JBODs for Data
3. Velocity Solo x2, Samsung 830/256 (boot drive, apps)
2. ORICO PFU3-2P for USB3 (works fine here)
1. R9 280X, 2 HU

Sure it was nice to have when it came with the Mac Pro. It's a 2009 machine, reached about 200-220MB/s read/write with 2x 2TB Barracudas striped to RAID0 when I got it in 2012. I know the card has been expensive new but that isn't really competitive anymore by today's standards.

Maybe I should toss it overboard and free a precious slot for something more useful. Does anyone care to comment on this?

Good to see you made some use of your PCIe after all...

The Apple Raid Card was my WORST $$$ spend since using a Mac, back in 2008. Nothing but trouble and that very annoying battery revival thingy, ugly. Just running a soft RAID0 and very happy with it. And yes, I have a very good back-up scheme!

 

[NOTNlCE]

4. Apricorn Velocity Solo x1
3. BlackMagic Design Intensity Pro Capture Card
2. (empty, formerly occupied by a Radeon 2600 XT for boot screen)
--
1. EVGA GTX 660 OC 2GB Edition

 

[beaker7]

Good to see you made some use of your PCIe after all...

The Apple Raid Card was my WORST $$$ spend since using a Mac, back in 2008. Nothing but trouble and that very annoying battery revival thingy, ugly. Just running a soft RAID0 and very happy with it. And yes, I have a very good back-up scheme!

The xServe one actually worked a lot better, but yeah the Mac Pro version was a joke.

 

[flowrider]

1. Gigabyte WindForce 3 fan Nvidia GTX780 with EFI by MacVidCards
2. Apricorn Velocity Solo X2 (Samsung 840 500 GB)
3. Old USB 2 Four Port Card
4. Inateck KT4004 USB 3 Four Port Card

Lou

 

[h9826790]

4. Blocked by the 7950 (looking for a PCIe extension cable to utilise this slot)
3. SAPPHIRE HD 7950 3GB GDDR5 MAC Edition
2. Inateck KT4004 USB 3.0
1. HIS IceQ R9 280 3GB GDDR5 Flashed

Edit: Thanks for pointing that out Flowrider. Number fixed

 

[flowrider]

^^^^Your slot numbering seems to be reversed. You Fixed It

Lou

 

[d-m-a-x]

my machine is a server now. Video card broke so i just yanked it, all the slots are empty. Going to fill them with hard drives. Low cost plan is to put a 4 sata controller in #1, and mount hard drives on blank cards on 2,3,4. power will come from the board

 

[shindom]

1. Asus GTX 760
2. empty -> PCIE EVO 500GB with Solo X2 or AD4MSPX2
3. Inateck KT4004 USB 3.0
4. empty

 

[m4v3r1ck]

Wow, nice to see all those MP PCIe updates here. cMP: Alive & Kicking Ass!!!

 

[Prince134]

1. HD 7970 with 0.956v 925mhz core/ 1300mhz ddr5
2. HD 7970 with 0.956v 925mhz core/ 1300mhz ddr5
3. blocked
4. Inateck 4 port USB 3.0

 

[handheldgames]

4 of my 5 slots are filled. While most overlook the mPCIE slot down in the processor area, It works well for USB 3.0.

Slot1: EVGA 680GTX or Gigabyte 7950. Depends on my mood.
Slot 2: Lycom NGFF adapter w/ Samsung XP941
Slot 3: Open for another NGFF flash disk
Slot 4: Velocity X2 - powering a couple 840Pros.

mPCIE/Airport slot: USB 3.0 Controller w/ 180MBSec R/W approx.

 

[NOTNlCE]

mPCIE/Airport slot: USB 3.0 Controller w/ 180MBSec R/W approx.

No way, can you really hook up an mPCIe card to the AirPort connection?