Why can't we have innovative tech like this anymore?

What the fuck is that?

>>57302993
Just get a workstation board and run dual xeons if thats what you want

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>>57303341
ECS PF88 "Extreme Hybrid." Circa-2005 mobo that was intrinsically LGA775, but could be changed to Socket 479, 754, or 939 with an add-in card as pictured.

>>57303355
Ah i remember it now.

Seems kinda pointless now when motherboards are so cheap though

>>57303398
Good point. Allow me to rephrase OP: "Why can't it be 2005 and we have fun hardware to dick around with again?"

>>57303401
Because inevitably it all flops

>>57302993
>bought an asrock back then that had a similar feature
>they even gave away the daughter board for free
>didn't even last before the new cpu came out
>was part of my first self built pc
It still hurts.

>>57303401
Speaking of fun hardware, what other cards can I buy to fill up my empty PCIE slots?

Already have a GPU (don't need two) and a fancy sound card. I'm waiting for PCIE SSDs to come down in price a bit more.

>>57303401
... arduino, raspberry pi & every other microboard are just that

>>57304703
Firewire are damn cheap and some have LEDs to boot. If you have some old dv tapes you could archive your or someone else's collection this way.

>>57305409
ditto this. 1394 is still useful in this decade for archival and connectivity purposes, and has its place among those that have older iPods that will sync and charge over them, even if you use Rockbox on the things.

As with all standards, there are much faster variants of firewire too, now. but, for the sake of having the port in a jiffy, it matters. the problem is 1394 is inherently a security risk, so people in the dev and sec world who are in the know generally epoxy or rip off the port from their boards and such unless they're using it for DMA and kernel debugging... but I haven't heard of someone using it for such in a long time.

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Wish there were more "enthusiast" dual CPU boards like the SR-2 or the Z10PE-WS

>>57302993

Additional contact resistance and signal length can lead to things like voltage sensitivity and timing issues.

>>57303401

It makes the hardware more expensive, and niche markets don't pay the bills.