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Future: Modular PC With External PCI Express
« on: July 30, 2006, 07:40:09 AM »
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1087&page=6

"Among other things, Intel has suggested a topology for the future that would separate the computing unit from the monitor, interface devices and external drives using PCI Express cable connections as a go-between."

http://www.reed-electronics.com/tmworld/article/CA6351055.html

"Now, PCIe is coming out of the box. External PCI Express puts from one to eight 2.5 Gbps lanes on a cable for computing-intensive applications (Figure 1). The cabling standard isn't finalized yet (it's currently at version 0.7), and it calls for a cable length of 7 m. Even so, engineers at Molex (www.molex.com/pcie.html) have run the bus as far as 30 m in a demonstration that took place on June 5 at GlobalComm."

The main feature of the future PC motherboard:
CPU, RAM, Northbridge, Wireless USB (for mouse, keyboard, 2D Video) and external PCI Express connectors.
External modules: 3D video card, DVD, Hard Disk etc.

Is it possible to create PowerPC motherboard with similar specification in the future?
 

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Re: Future: Modular PC With External PCI Express
« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2006, 10:49:49 AM »
Why would you want it?
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Re: Future: Modular PC With External PCI Express
« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2006, 02:14:09 PM »
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asian1 wrote:

Is it possible to create PowerPC motherboard with similar specification in the future?


Why? What is this odd obsession that you have with the PPC... unless you are building an embedded device it's not much use anymore.


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Re: Future: Modular PC With External PCI Express
« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2006, 01:50:55 AM »
Our resident SpamBOT strikes again :-D
 

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Re: Future: Modular PC With External PCI Express
« Reply #4 on: July 31, 2006, 03:35:38 AM »
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adz wrote:
Our resident SpamBOT strikes again :-D


Don't call him 'SpamBOT'. :-) He's posts some strange stuff, however this guy often comes up with some interesting points at times.



Dude, that article is from 2003!!