PCI Express® External Cabling 1.0 Specification

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Found this while looking around. The article is from Extreme Tech But i have also included the link to PCI-SIG's site.

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2091593,00.asp

http://www.pcisig.com/specifications/pciexpress/pcie_cabling1.0/



After reading over it, it sounds like a good idea. Being able to use many cards, and keep them outside you box. You could run your box cooler, and would be able to run you cards cooler to. Oh well, even though they are saying 2007, im sure it wont be till '08 that we really see anything with this.
 
i personally think the idea sounds kind of lame. i don't have space for another box of any sort in my workspace and i like the aesthetics of having my core components inside my case. sure i can see the utility of giving better graphics to laptops, but if we start having a specification for external video cards, it gives manufacturers an excuse to be lazy and not properly design the thermals or power consumption of their products.

The idea of mainstream externalization of graphics hardware smells very impractical to me. I bought a nice case to put my computer hardware in and that's what I want to do with it.

Oh and for people who are talking about quad SLI, I have one word: bunny.
 
Yeah but with GPUs starting to do physics calculations and performing other functions having an external array of them might be useful. More of a business/workstation setup but could be useful.

Plus it doesn't necessarily need to be a graphics card. Could be a RAID adapter or some other high bandwidth external device.
 
I would bank this alongside external sound cards, not many are going to use them. You pay an exorbitant amount of money to mount your cards outside, for laptops it might be great, but then you could always just get a bigger laptop...
 
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