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		theandrewbailey 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PCIe 8.0 announced by the PCI-Sig will double thro... I've wondered why there hasn't been a desktop with a CPU+RAM card that slots into a PCIe x32 slot (if such a thing could exist), or maybe dual x16 slots, and the motherboard could be a dumb backplane that only connected the other slots and distributed power, and probably be much smaller.

namibj 7 months ago | [–]

Those exist; they are used for risers ("vertical mount GPU brackets, for dual GPU" equivalent for servers, where they make the cards flat again).

KeplerBoy 7 months ago | | [–]

PCIe x 32 actually exists, at least in the specification. I have never seen a picture of a part using it.

iszomer 7 months ago | [–]

Retimers.

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