PCI Express External Cabling

Rufus

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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.
 
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)
 
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...
 
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?
 
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