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This arcade stick uses the forbidden type A to type A cable (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Those pcie x1 to x16 adapters also use one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh man I forgot about these from my mining days! Do people use these for actual pcie expansions? I've never needed more than most mid to high end motherboards offer

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I did it once with a mid atx that had only two slots but needed a card to boot and I wanted to put a networking card in the full sized slot so used one of these for the graphics card.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

These are so bad for it, it's not even USB.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

The blue cable is actually a USB cable but being used for pcie