Wahooo – brought a 40£ workstation – whacked in a Hard drive and got it up and working with a GTX 1050 in the machine and also a GTX 750 on the riser/hub board.

PCI switch expander on a Dell 7010

Had to botch together a longer power cable….

power cable made longer

And now sitting next to my blade server.

PCI switch expander on a Dell 7010

power usage

Power usage on the external card is less than 50w so happy with my power cable bodge.