A Better Motherboard Design

[dac7nco]

After building a strong workstation recently, I had to perform a casemod, which involved extending a PCIe slot via a ribbon, and cutting a slot in the F*?king case for an Areca card. I don't care about bling. I like large, neat, expandable and fairly quiet machines. How many of you have spent huge sums of money for a motherboard which, once you use it's "SLI/CF...whatever" capabilities... leaves you with half of the potential expansion you bought?

What the hell is so difficult about this?!:

PCIe x1
PCIe x1
PCIe x4
PCIe x8
PCIe x16
PCI
PCIe x16

Or to be even more stangely practical:

6-7x PCIe slots from x1 to x8, on the Motherboard
2-3x PCIe x16, cabled from STANDOFF connectors on the motherboard. Can case/MB manufacturers not grasp this? It's not rocket science.

An extra 4x slot/brackets in a tower would be difficult. Hell, I have a case which fits two power supplies & has an assload of hot-swap drive bays. They can't give be standoff-cables for video cards, or a few 2.5" internal bays?

Daimon

 

[heymrdj]

Originally posted by: dac7nco
After building a strong workstation recently, I had to perform a casemod, which involved extending a PCIe slot via a ribbon, and cutting a slot in the F*?king case for an Areca card. I don't care about bling. I like large, neat, expandable and fairly quiet machines. How many of you have spent huge sums of money for a motherboard which, once you use it's "SLI/CF...whatever" capabilities... leaves you with half of the potential expansion you bought?

What the hell is so difficult about this?!:

PCIe x1
PCIe x1
PCIe x4
PCIe x8
PCIe x16
PCI
PCIe x16

Or to be even more stangely practical:

6-7x PCIe slots from x1 to x8, on the Motherboard
2-3x PCIe x16, cabled from STANDOFF connectors on the motherboard. Can case/MB manufacturers not grasp this? It's not rocket science.

An extra 4x slot/brackets in a tower would be difficult. Hell, I have a case which fits two power supplies & has an assload of hot-swap drive bays. They can't give be standoff-cables for video cards, or a few 2.5" internal bays?

Daimon

This is what I would think would be perfect. Huge cases like the Canyon, Tagan, and the like should have no problem with a seperately chambered riser card built with triple double spaced PCI-e 16x slots for massive graphics cards or easy wiring of oversized SATA RAID cards like the 24 port Areca models. Maybe it has something to do with electrical of running the wiring up the case that far? I'm not an EE so I can't say what would have to be done via the signal for such a project.

 

[heymrdj]

Not the best representation, but something along the lines. http://www.soarland.com/Flexib..._Card-product-250.html


I would like to see a much longer setup though for perhaps a graphics chamber.

 

[dac7nco]

Yes heymrdj,

I can't fathom why this hasn't been done by Silverstone/Lian Li...etc. This would make a legendary and very involved casemod.

Daimon