TS-873 pci-e

[NeoRox]

Hello,
Just ordered a Ts873 and a 10Gbe card. My question is will a graphics card also fit in the unit along side the card. Looking at this GT1030
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07 ... 1OLE&psc=1

Thanks

[dolbyman]

here is one card in the compatibility list

https://www.qnap.com/en/compatibility/? ... ategory=25

[NeoRox]

Thanks for that. All the vendors selling the unit have 1030 in their specs. Span.co.uk, Amazon etc. Will both fit together or will the graphics card take up too much room does anybody know?

[Crush]

Well you can't fit a second card together with the only GFX card on their compatibility list (MSI 1050Ti) and that's a fact.

[NeoRox]

I'm talking about the 10GB card and the graphics card both fitting not two graphics cards

[Crush]

I know. The MSI 1050Ti takes up both slots..

[NeoRox]

Pity that. I was hoping for the best of both worlds. Thanks very much for the answer though.

[Crush]

I was toying with the idea of hacking the card a little - remove the DVI port and dropping it into the lower slot. A second card then would fit into the upper slot. However, the GFX card fan casing also fouls on some other hardware (the HD casing) so that would have to come off too. All in all, one mod too many for my liking. I'm not saying it's impossible just very difficult - and any warranty on your GFX card you would lose.

[NeoRox]

Yeah its a bit risky anything goes wrong with the gpu could transfer a fault into the nas pci-e slot. I haven't researched external gpu's or thunderbolt to see if they are an option so thats the next step. It won't be a deal breaker if not either way.

[soothingvoice]

I realize this thread is old, but I'm having trouble wrapping my head around a PCI x16 card fitting in a PCI x4 slot. I'm looking at photos of the x16 card and don't see a notch for the card to fit in a x4 slot. How's this card fitting in there?

[jaysona]

The back of the PCIe slot is open, so the rest of the x16 connector just slides through the opening.

[soothingvoice]

Brilliant! Thanks!

[soothingvoice]

A final question for those of you on this thread that have a TS-873 and MSI 1050 TI, have you had success with Plex transcoding the media? How "loud" does the QNAP unit get when the GPU is transcoding (fans blowing)?

I also would like to know if anyone has had any experience with this sort of setup and then watching content with subtitles enabled (some of us are hard of hearing). I've found that when subtitles are enabled, more processing is done by the CPU (or maybe it's the GPU) to stream and support subtitles and then buffering and jittering occurs.

As a final note, has anyone setup a unit like this and used the watch together feature from Plex ( https://support.plex.tv/articles/watch-together/ ), how about with subtitles?

[jaysona]

There are plenty of TVS-873 plex related threads, better to ask there instead of dredging up an old thread and derailing it.

[OneCD]

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