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Re:We Need New Motherboards Before GPUs Collapse Under Their... by mariuolo on Friday September 23, 2022 @12:17AM (#32948003)
> The NUC Extreme line is basically that, which IMO is a really good form factor.

Missed that one. I still mourn BTX.

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Re:We Need New Motherboards Before GPUs Collapse Under Their... by voxadam on Friday September 23, 2022 @04:44AM (#32949431)
I wish a PC form factor like NLX[0] had become popular where the CPU and memory is on a board that's inserted into a backplane parallel to the add-in cards (similar to VME[1]). IIRC NLX was mostly intended for low-profile applications like corporate desktops and retail systems (point-of-sales) but it never caught on. I can see the edge connector and backplane potentially being an issue with old school parallel PCI (that's a lot of pins) but the serial nature of modern PCIe and the advent of PCIe switches would significantly reduce the number of signal lines.

[0] https://www.halolinux.us/hardware/images/2249_56_22.jpg

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMEbus

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