nateman_doo

and the point of that is just to make more ram for the board?

No, it's a cheap way of having a high speed SSD in a way. PCIE 2.2 compliant at that.

nateman_doo

http://www.hwbot.org/arti...presents_pci_maximizer

can someone tell me what the hell this thing is?  I read it a few times, and I till can't figure it out. 

"I came across this nifty solution for one of the biggest problems of the PCMark05-benchmarker. TiN, the Ukrainian overclocker and hardware modification master who has been featured on the HWBOT front page more than once in the last couple of months, posted his solution for the need of PCI lane power when using a series of GIGABYTE i-Ram modules."

http://kingpincooling.com..um/showthread.php?t=471

johnksss

nateman_doo

http://www.hwbot.org/article/news/tin_presents_pci_maximizer

can someone tell me what the hell this thing is?  I read it a few times, and I till can't figure it out. 

"I came across this nifty solution for one of the biggest problems of the PCMark05-benchmarker. TiN, the Ukrainian overclocker and hardware modification master who has been featured on the HWBOT front page more than once in the last couple of months, posted his solution for the need of PCI lane power when using a series of GIGABYTE i-Ram modules."

http://kingpincooling.com/forum/showthread.php?t=471

I still don't understand.  He cut up a motherboard in order to get ahold of the PCI slots and that portion of the PCB.  Now, does this mean that the I-RAM drive does not need to communicate through the PCI slots but only needs the PCI slots for power and communicates with the computer VIA another cable connected to the I-RAM cards themselves?
 
Or did he just cut one up as a dummy test piece before doing the real deal to a working motherboard?

So... I still must ask you, how does it communicate with the computer?  SATA cable?  The picture only confirms my puzzle but does nothing to answer.

And why not just use a PCI slot on the motherboard?  Due to space limitations and lack of PCI slots?

Lastly, why not solder the power wires directly onto the I-RAM card instead of trashing a motherboard for its PCI slots?

ty_ger07

johnksss

nateman_doo

http://www.hwbot.org/article/news/tin_presents_pci_maximizer

can someone tell me what the hell this thing is?  I read it a few times, and I till can't figure it out. 

"I came across this nifty solution for one of the biggest problems of the PCMark05-benchmarker. TiN, the Ukrainian overclocker and hardware modification master who has been featured on the HWBOT front page more than once in the last couple of months, posted his solution for the need of PCI lane power when using a series of GIGABYTE i-Ram modules."

http://kingpincooling.com/forum/showthread.php?t=471

I still don't understand.  He cut up a motherboard in order to get ahold of the PCI slots and that portion of the PCB.  Now, does this mean that the I-RAM drive does not need to communicate through the PCI slots but only needs the PCI slots for power and communicates with the computer VIA another cable connected to the I-RAM cards themselves?
 
Or did he just cut one up as a dummy test piece before doing the real deal to a working motherboard?

After looking over, I see no way of card being able to communicate with main board. As it sits he is merely providing power to all slot via that sata power connector and nothing else. I'm sure he'll come up with a line to be abble to do data transfer. Right now tho it's just another piece of duct tape hardware.

this one seems to have a sata port...would that be how they transfer the data..or is that wishful thinking?

the more expensive version...
http://www.fusionio.com/products/

pretty sure you transfer data via the iram itself   you just need to power the pcb and you can boot right from this thing

johnksss 

this one seems to have a sata port...would that be how they transfer the data..or is that wishful thinking?

the more expensive version...
http://www.fusionio.com/products/

I saw that SATA port on there and was thinking the same thing.  But without intimate knowledge of that thing, who knows if that SATA port is for data transfer to the motherboard or if it is only a way of adding a hard disk or SDD drive to the I-RAM array.
 
You would think it would be much easier to just solder the power wire to the I-RAM card iself instead of going through the hassle he did.

well it seems that i have alot of work ahead of me for my old E2140.....they are getting 4.3GHZ on LN2 with it....... all i have atm is a H50 in a bucket of ice..... (my cheep chilled water rig FTW?) but im working on it :P