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Time to stop dancing around the issue and just run solid-copper bus-bars directly from the PSU to your GPU. That aesthetic could be made appealing.

• orbital-decay 4y ago
  While we're at it, can we get a new motherboard standard that acknowledges the fact that video cards are at least as complex as the motherboard itself? With the strong preference for a ring configuration for central cooling, like the trash can Mac Pros. Or a star one.
  • geoffeg 4y ago
    Can we just go full back plane with the CPU being just one of those cards on the back plane?
    • xxpor 4y ago
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slot_1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slot_1
      • rswskg 4y ago
        I had totally forgotten about those. Pretty cool in hindsight
      • mepian 4y ago
        I was thinking more about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMEbus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMEbus
    • albrewer 4y ago
      If I recall correctly the only reason that configuration was abandoned was because the physical distance between the CPU and RAM needed to be as short as possible. I liked the Pentium 2 card as much as the next guy but I like faster system speeds more.
    • undersuit 4y ago
      Intel has a NUC in that form now. PCI-E style backpane in the case can accepts 11th gen and 12th gen CPU boards and a full size GPU. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/boards-kits/nuc/mini-pcs/nuc-12-extreme.html https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/boards... But I guess the CPU is still the hub of PCI-E networks right now.
      • eternityforest 4y ago
        If I wanted a desktop I'd be really excited about that right now.