Yeah, except you can actually do that and it works. So its not really a cock up. You are cutting off the extra PCI-E lines and the card runs at the slower speed. Its well documented on the internet. The only reason this didnt work is because it sounds like he put it in a PCI slot, not a PCI-E one.
At first I thought you were saying that a PCI-E card would work in a PCI slot if you cut it, but there wasn't anything on the Internet to support that :lol: Then I got what you were actually saying, and apparently the Dell Dimension 2350 doesn't even have any PCI-E slots.
I've never liked name PCI Express for the slot though, it's way too easy for non-tech savvy people to confuse it with PCI.
Not because of the reason you posted. Your picture was all about cutting the connector - which is a valid mod. Only found the PCI part by reading the rest of the thread you linked to.
I used to be on Tech-forums. When I was, like... 14. I've definitely never heard of anyone cutting off part of a card so that it will fit. Worst mistake I've seen was a kid frying his CPU in his sweet/stupid "gaming rig" he was building in high school. He brought it into the computer systems class and one day during a slow tech support day I went in, took the CPU off, and found that he had left the plastic sticker on the bottom of his heatsink. And then applied about a gallon of thermal paste. "It worked great for like half an hour, then it just died!" (Though I guess my good friend built a PC and when I went over to diagnose a lack of power, I found that he didn't install the motherboard risers so the board was shorting out on the case... somehow he didn't blow anything up.) Then the day after I had to fix another kid's molex plug he managed to rip-off of his video card. -_- The instructor was pretty amazed at my MacGyver skills. I guess that's one plus when you're the son of a weirdo engineer.
When I read the thread title, I was expecting that Australian TellMe vs. Siri comparison. That's, uh...quite an appointment (and slightly NSFW). Of course the grandaddy of voice recognition mistakes is something I'm sure everyone has seen before.
Someone modding the slot: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/249291-12-card + http://tkdan.com/SC420/ Proper adapter for the task: http://www.ebuyer.com/195059-starte...-profile-x16-slot-extension-adapter-pex1to162 Modding the card: http://www.invisiblerobot.com/pcie_x1/
