PCI Express External Cabling

[Rufus]

Ars is reporting on a new PCI Sig spec for outside of the case. Has anyone gotten their hands on the spec? It seems to me from Ars's writeup that it's basically a formal spec for what nvidia's already done with the Quadro Plex platform.

 

[Techno+]

sounds nice, however a solution like Quadroplex is only aimed for the extreme high-end.

 

[zsouthboy]

I think oems would love to put the cards in self-contained, self-powered little boxes. It would definitely cut down on support issues (bad PS, inadequate cooling)

 

[Mark]

How long before this comes full circle and we end up with "graphics compartments" in our cases to hold what would otherwise have been an external graphics card...

 

[KimB]

I remember this sort of thing being talked about way back when the original PCI Express spec was still in development. I wonder what happened to that?