An additional complication is that MI250Xes are two GPUs in one package, so you need to connect the first and last x16 SERDES groups to the host, otherwise you'll only see one GPU (or it won't work at all, idk).

Also, the cheap HPE pulls on eBay need some proprietary HPE magic to work, and I have yet to see anyone figure that out.

These are interesting, and offer beefy through put. No point in adapting to a PCI lane thought, stuck behind the slot-bus bottleneck.

Ahh luckily this OAM socket will prevent me from spending money.