not sure if poe or not...

Joke perhaps.

Its dead Jim!

Regardless of April fools or not.

It might be salvageable if you actually cut it down to 1x or 4x.

As it stands that’s not been cut to a supported number of PCIe lanes, and I dread to think if there are any shorts.

paradigital wrote on 2025-04-01, 17:28:

Regardless of April fools or not.

It might be salvageable if you actually cut it down to 1x or 4x.

As it stands that’s not been cut to a supported number of PCIe lanes, and I dread to think if there are any shorts.

its been cut to fit in a standard PCI slot ....if its real and was put into a standard PCI slot ....I doubt it'll work at all even if they cut it back to 1x.

Yeah, not sure if O/P is trolling or just April fool's joke or real.
But if real... then I have no other words here.

May still work if cut properly to a PCI-E 1x length, despite having been plugged into a regular PCI slot (the PCI-E lanes are capacitor-coupled, so any pin on the card going to a voltage rail on the PCI slot should not get damaged.) That said, I would be very surprised if the O/P's board didn't end up in smoke or with burned traces.

And to anyone ever trying to cut a PCI-E 16x GPU to fit into a PCI-E 1x slot, cut the 1x slot at the back so that 16x cards can fit rather than cutting cards individually. Of course, this will only work if there are no components behind the PCI-E 1x slot so that a 16x device will really fit.

Also, if you're ever going to cut a card for the 1st time, at least do it on something trashy and plentiful, like Radeon HD2400/3450/6450 which are dime-a-dozen and cheap enough to practice on. And preferably test it in a motherboard you don't care too much about, should anything go wrong. Just my $0.02's worth.