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You're right but ignoring cost I'd rather have something that looks like this than a Mac but there's no accounting for taste. Regarding the PCIe comment: peopl
by zwieback 13y ago
You're right but ignoring cost I'd rather have something that looks like this than a Mac but there's no accounting for taste.
Regarding the PCIe comment: people are already using PCIe over cable as an expansion technology. We use lots of these, for example: http://www.onestopsystems.com/pcie_over_cable_3810.php http://www.onestopsystems.com/pcie_over_cable_3810.php
Works in a pinch although it's of course not going to have the same performance as a connectorless solution.
- WiseWeasel 13y agoThe point is that GPUs need to be physically near CPUs and RAM. You can do all kinds of external PCI expansion, including Thunderbolt cables several meters long, but you'd never attach a GPU to that other end.
- dippyskoodlez 13y agoPeople are running GPU's through thunderbolt on Macbook Airs. TB Actually has provisions for doing this, but they are severely underdeveloped.
- WiseWeasel 13y agoThat's not going to work well. Thunderbolt 2 is 20 Gbit/sec per connection, vs 128Gbit/sec for a 16x PCIe 3.0 slot.
- ChuckMcM 13y agoAs Wise points out the challenge is the bandwidth. You can run video cards over USB (see DisplayLink) but the update rates suffer from being constrained to 480 megabits/sec. So if you are paying a lot of money for something, you probably want commensurate performance.
- almosnow 13y agoChuckMcM never mentioned cost at all... ChuckMcM explained very concisely why a PC design like this one COULD NOT EXIST >You're right but ignoring cost I would prefer this over a Mac ... are you retarded?