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This arcade stick uses the forbidden type A to type A cable (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago by JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world
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[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Those pcie x1 to x16 adapters also use one.

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[–] ReasonablePea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week 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

[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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.

[–] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago

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