Ready Player Eight - Build Log (Completed)

Got the itch to tinker again, as well as getting tired of carrying the 25+kg 8 Player Box and up and down stairs

Currently working on a 2Player version, which will retire the 8Player version in time once I have 4x of them up and running


2x GP 600 G5 internals (moving from 7th gen i5 to 9th gen for extra cores)
Single 750w PSU (sits between the 2x GPUs)
2x GTX 1660 Supers (relocating cards from RP8)
Small 1Gbe Switch internal
Presenting the IO Ports directly out the ends this time, as the extensions were annoying after a while with the 8Player version

Overall dimensions: 380mm high, 160mm wide, 326mm deep

Single Spine with the 2x Motherboards on either side, the whole case will be mostly out of 3mm Alu

Anyways, another LAN coming up in June so will see if I get this done in time for testing

 

I have a question about this. How does a quad-SLI board manage to support full speed for each PCIe lane? Or do the lanes run slower the more GPUs you add? Or do they share bandwidth or something?

 

They definitely don't get x16 lanes each that's for sure, they just share the available lanes, but with the cards I was using back then the bottleneck would have been negligible

On the older quad pcie boards, only 1-2 have the capability of running x16, with the others being hard limited to x8 or x4 depending

The kit your referencing that I was testing with originally is long gone haha, was pretty fun virtualising gaming PC's though