CES NEWS - Intel PCIe Socketable Computer - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Black Phoenix
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 08, 2020, 02:03:23 am
content: Interesting... And NO OS Included. Could this be a great small form factor Linux PC?

author: rrinker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 08, 2020, 09:45:43 pm
content: My first IBM PC compatible machine was basically computer on an ISA card. All the original Heath/Zenith MS-DOS machines were backplane machines like that, there was no motherboard like IBM and the direct clones., just a 5 or 6 slot passive ISA backplane.

author: james_s
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 09, 2020, 01:35:50 am
content: Seems like HP made some like that too. I think the promise was that upgrading was made easier. In practice though in those days it was rarely cost effective to upgrade major components like the processor because then everything else became a bottleneck.

author: David Hess
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 09, 2020, 02:46:33 am
content: The chief advantage was being able to sell a common passive backplane with multiple CPU options. The disadvantage is limited space on the CPU board for high speed devices like memory.

author: james_s
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 11, 2020, 01:21:42 am
content: I wondered about that, it sounds good on paper but I think to some extent the same problem occurs. The move from 8088 to 286 requires going from 8 bit to 16 bit slots, then there was VLB, then PCI and so on. EISA was around too but I don't remember ever seeing that in consumer PCs, though I did encounter a few EISA servers.Back when PCs were rapidly evolving very few parts were reusable between generations.

author: excitedbox
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 11, 2020, 03:21:19 am
content: When I saw that thing I had to think of dell and hp blade servers. Same thing without the easy swapability. They truly have ru out of ideas. No more ideas for their CPUs so they are going back to see what other things they can recycle besides the 22nm node

author: BravoV
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 11, 2020, 03:24:45 am
content: This thing brings memory of the brand AST ... time flies.

author: NiHaoMike
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 11, 2020, 03:39:27 pm
content: It looks like they could get much better cooling by putting the CPU and heatsink on the other side of the board.

author: james_s
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 11, 2020, 07:36:21 pm
content: Quote from: excitedbox on January 11, 2020, 03:21:19 amWhat other ideas would you expect? PCs are a mature commodity, there aren't a lot of new ideas in screwdrivers, hammers or wheels either.

author: ConKbot
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 15, 2020, 01:55:43 pm
content: Same thing as a small form factor motherboard that uses a riser card for PCI-e, just with the connector changed to a card edge plug instead of a socket.

author: Brent88
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: February 08, 2020, 09:42:08 pm
content: So will i be able to use my old core2 and plug this into a PCi-Express slot for a instant upgrade?