> You can also play around with the M.2 slots on your desktop... those can be adapted to a pcie slot with a riser cable/PCB. I ended up doing this recently. I

> You can also play around with the M.2 slots on your desktop... those can be adapted to a pcie slot with a riser cable/PCB. I ended up doing this recently. I wanted to have a 10Gb NIC, a FireWire card (old negative scanner) and two GPUs. The PCIe slots are only 16/8/1/1 however, so to get both GPUs and the 10Gb NIC running at a reasonable speed I ended up getting a riser for the NIC as the M.2 slot had more lanes. It works.