Raspberry Pi PCIe Shenanigans: Using Pi 5 in all the wrong ways!

What happens when you plug a GPU into a Pi 5? How about WiFi 7? And three Xeon CPUs... wait, what?!

Please consider donating to the UOAA to support other people with ostomies, like I have! You can use the form on YouTube next to this video, or donate online:

Here are all the devices I used in the livestream (some are affiliate links):

Contents:

00:00:00 - Goals
00:02:41 - Pi 5 internal GPU Baseline
00:11:50 - UOAA $2k donation
00:16:20 - AMD GPU on Pi 5
00:24:55 - SuperTuxKart in 4K, Ultra
00:28:19 - Doom 3 in 4K, Ultra
00:32:27 - Other GPU benchmarks
00:40:46 - PCIe Jankfest
00:42:35 - A wild DAD appears!
00:43:11 - OCuLink external PCIe on Pi 5
00:48:30 - LTT Precision Screwdriver DRAMA
00:49:32 - PCIe Jankfest, continued
00:52:09 - OCuLink installed and powered
00:57:55 - The beta livestream setup (NDI Time!)
00:59:36 - Back to OCuLink and 4K External GPU Gaming
01:04:50 - Make something blow up! Freeze spray and Lightsaber
01:06:19 - PCIe Jankfest, now with more PCIe
01:07:51 - BRB, Poop Talk, and Goal Met!
01:08:48 - $20K GOAL! Time to plug in the mystery card...
01:10:28 - Percussive maintenance (hammer time)
01:12:13 - Mystery card - magic smoke?
01:13:20 - Mystery card - VCA2 gets HOT
01:24:56 - Back to GPU Shenanigans
01:27:13 - Hacksmith surprise appearance?
01:27:54 - PCIe Jankfest, upgraded
01:36:46 - Mystery card - VCA2 3x Xeon Internals
01:39:23 - Pi 5 PCIe HAT Debug tool
01:41:33 - IOCREST 5 Gbps M.2 NIC
01:50:37 - PCI Express device debugging in Linux
01:54:15 - Recompiling Linux
01:56:27 - Ostomy Awareness and THANK YOU!

[JeffGeerling]

Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who's donated, and helped us reach the $20, 000 mark!!

I've added links and timestamps, to make it easier for you to skip around to the parts you want to watch.

[PL-uijc]

Sadly I have just lost my dad to cancer, we used to mess with computers all the time, it was really good seeing you and your dad working on this stuff.

[drphibesrises]

Bravo to you for bringing attention to ostomies. I admire you for your candid thoughts. 🙏🙏

[richcreedy]

I AGREE Jeff, it is educational, and fun, we should all continue learning no matter how old we get.

[igordasunddas]

Thank you Jeff for your awesome stream. I remember when you first tried a GPU on a Pi. To see the progress and how great it actually runs, it's definitely impressive. Also I like when you confirm resolution and settings each time - I often do that, too. Thanks!

[Brain_pocketer]

A feast for the community, thanks Jeff.

[MatthewJohnCrittenden]

Wonderful. Time spent tinkering and sharing like this is much better than mindlessly consuming mainstream media IMO. I'll donate now.

[deaconstjohn]

Thank you Jeff, Love these kind of videos...Its so nice that you and your dad are able to do things together. Thanks again

[dricci]

Diagnosed with UC last year. Thankfully not at the point of needing surgery yet, but medication treatments have been up and down and a ostomy certainly could become a reality for me at some point. Thanks for doing this fundraiser and reassuring me that it's not the end of the world if I do need one someday.

[roberthilsdon]

Thanks for the work about ostomates it saved my wife's life.

[syrusk]

Meddling with PCIe - this is my fave Jeff content.

[justme]

Just comes back to that old saying: just because you can doesn't mean you should

[clintonleetaylor]

Thanks Jeff, you are awesome! Thanks for educating us, not just about tech. Keep up the great work. 🎉

[judsonleach]

You "Had Me" @ Shenanigans! lol 🙂

[Yuriel]

38:44 I totally thought Jeff was gonna make a punctuation joke here. Then I realized I am just dumb lol. Still feels like a missed opportunity for a "And it kinda worked but not really" sort of joke.

[dotcom]

Thank you for the stream. I enjoy watching the items you present and what you’re working toward. Super generic superlatives, but I always find your videos enjoyable.

On another note, this feedback for anyone who goes live on different platforms: please start with a preroll or a countdown. There is no reason that streams shouldn’t begin with a “begins in…” screen, or “beginning soon”.

That way you can CONFIDENTLY say ‘Welcome to the stream’ instead of hosts ‘hoping’ that they’re live and can be heard. Please! You are literally (probably) already using the tools! It changes nothing about my watching but I wanted to say my multiple cents.

[diepurpledino]

Crohn's means always having a bag you can set on fire on the neighbor's doorstep, ring the bell, & run.

[Niarbeht]

For future livestreams, consider seeing if there's a way to mirror the video output to a second monitor so you can look at a different monitor than the one the viewers are seeing. That one can be set up to avoid glare problems.

[max-abobea]

Local man plans to overlock technology as we know it

[dominivik]

Nice stream. So much great info on so many pi parts. I never knew that a gpu could be used with pi board. I wonder if pi board has tolerance if somehow power leaks from gpu.