Weird PCIE card...

[Maximilian]

Yup!

Heres the original:

PCI naturally

 

[Red Squirrel]

Needs a couple heat sink and fans and external 12 volt connector for more authenticity. Actually make that a separate product. The Killer Nic Extreme Edition for 3x the price. Throw in some rigid coax and excessive shielding on it too.

 

[John Connor]

Any of you remember that high dollar nic that was supposed to reduce ping or something like that? The claims they made were questionable, but not outside the realm of possibility. It was one of those things to get if you were rich, and building the "ultimate" gaming rig.

Gigabyte gamer series mobos offer this reduced ping crap. But Gigabyte does make a great mobo.

 

[Jeff7]

Lol. It's just six caps soldered to a PCB.

And some little ceramics for some of the high-frequency noise, so they at least get a little credit for thinking of that.
They also thought ahead enough to include pads for through-hole caps, just in case.

Or hell, you could mod that thing and add the through-holes too.



:hmm:
So how much capacitance would you be able to add to the PCIe bus before its power supply circuitry sees it as a short-circuit at power-up and simply shuts back down?


I've got some 50 Farad caps here at work.
Plugging in a power supply to those things when they're uncharged pushes the thing into overload mode. It slloooowly ramps up its output voltage as it charges the cap.

That much capacitance is fun, even at only 2 volts.

 

[natto fire]

I am pretty sure they missed the "slap a lower case 'i' in front of something and it sells" wave by a bit, I guess that is why it is out of stock?