November 27, 20232 yr Looking for some creative hardware advice. I'm relatively new to hardware, so am not sure I'm going down the right path here. I have a MSI B560I which only has one PCIE lane, which I currently have an HBA connected to. I'd like to add a GPU to my system primarily for transcoding because the iGPU is so slow. I tried this M.2 to PCIE extension because my case (a Fractal Node 304) is out of space. I connected it to the bottom M.2 slot on the MB, but it seemed to have fried my SSD I had in the top slot, I think because I had improperly powered it (not positive, but after powering the extension on, the SSD was no longer detected). I found this alternative option, and am looking for any general advice about extensions like these and the efficacy of installing a GPU with one. I understand it won't be able to work at full power, so perhaps I could install the HBA with it and put the GPU in the dedicated x16 slot? Or is this just all a bad idea?
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