Paul wrote:

John Doe wrote:

I get the impression (and hope) that many of the PCIe riser cards are
just right angle adapters.

That's a good bet. You could probably do an image search on PCIe
risers and see what shows up.

Thanks.

I hope the servers in these Ebay deals are complete. There could be
stuff missing, if they tried to part them out. I'd prefer to see an
internal photo of the things. An external photo just tells me I'm
getting a boat anchor.

Lots of them have internal pictures. Many of them tell what specific
motherboard is inside, at least by researching the server part number.
Ordering stuff over the Internet is always somewhat risky, and eBay is
the rule.

One thing I've noticed, apparently servers can be noisy and consume
much idle current. But some have fixes for that.