PCIe based single board computers

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>>61970830
I really can't think of a single real use case for this
VMs and containers make that have no real reason to be used

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>>61970872

I mean it's pretty cool so why the heck not

>>61970830
the only thing I'd imagine this would be useful for is if you want something to be running 24/7 but want to save power by having your main PC powered off most of the time

>>61970830
What is the pci port used for?

Is it just for power, or can it do other things like networking?

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>>61970977

They'd be really useful as upgrades to help with CPU bound workloads

>>61971011

I'd like to know as well, honestly

>>61971162
>>61971011
AFAIK those are not expansion cards. You are supposed to put the in a backplane.

>>61971019
Holy shit i remember that, shame the performance was a joke

>>61970830
>install off the shelf octocore ARM dev board
>any and all interpreted languages automatically processed on it
>natively run ARM binaries on an X86 kernel and vice versa
>ARM based server that fires up X86 cores when load gets too high
>an easy and affordable Beowulf cluster that's limited to the number of PCIE slots included on your noncommercial motherboard.
>another GPU (or cluster of GPUs) at your disposal for virtualization or just some fancy Vulkan shit since all ARM cores have one built in
This would be fucking awesome. Lots of potential.

>>61970830
>>61970872
>>61970977
>>61971011
>>61971162
Holy shit are some people fucking dumb.

Yes, I'm talking about YOU.

>>61975015

Enlighten us, smart guy

>>61970830

These things used to be pretty common in industrial settings. You would have a motherboard that was basically just passive, then both the cpu card the peripheral cards would plug into the backplane.

Why? it probably kept industrial BOMs simpler and let some giant industrial machine design be kept up to date by just swapping a single card out. You would probably have a lower total part count for a range of applications.

For a datacenter application, look at some of supermicro's stuff. they have rackmount chassis that can have multiple computer modules slide into them.

>>61970917
Why is she so smug, what happened to her?

>>61970830
bump 4 interest. What's these things called anyway.

Yeah. Where to buy?

>>61973024
iirc it was a solution for for 754 boards to support 939 later on, wasn't it?

>>61970830
Looks like a nice thing to use on lan houses or offices.
One box, four users.