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We Need New Motherboards Before GPUs Collapse Under Their Own Gravity

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Re: We Need New Motherboards Before GPUs Collapse Under Their Own Gravity

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Post by eigenspace »

lvturner wrote: post #10
bitxbitxbitcoin wrote: post #3

Turn the tower on its side so the motherboard is parallel with the ground and the weight of the GPU keeps it in the PCI-e slot. It is my understanding that GPUs are able to still properly dissipate their heat in this configuration. Great article!

Came here to somewhat sarcastically write this, glad to see it here. Less sarcastically, I would quite like to go back to putting my monitor on top of a desktop - sure beats a stack of books.

I do this with my PC unironically.

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Post by moandcompany »

bitxbitxbitcoin wrote: post #3

Turn the tower on its side so the motherboard is parallel with the ground and the weight of the GPU keeps it in the PCI-e slot. It is my understanding that GPUs are able to still properly dissipate their heat in this configuration. Great article!

In the old days, desktop cases existed where you could use the case as a vertical tower or horizontally to put the monitor on top.

People could also move to a rack mountable chassis.

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Post by gh02t »

cabirum wrote: post #2

My motherboard says it has "reinforced" pcie slot :) But yea, I have to say peak power consumption has to be regulated so companies compete in efficiency, not raw power.

There sorta is a cap in place given that most residential circuits in the US are 15 or 20 amps. We're already not far off of that being a serious concern even on non-crazy builds. Edit: ok maybe crazy builds but still it's not that far fetched on current trajectories.

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Post by zaptheimpaler »

How about we move to external only GPUs with huge connectors? If GPUs are half the size, power consumption and price of a PC now, they might as well be a separate device. As a bonus the rest of the motherboard & PCs actually get much smaller. A PC without any spinning disks could conceivably just be the size of a NUC by default, something you can travel with when you don't need the beefy GPU.

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Post by LeoPanthera »

SanjayMehta wrote: post #12

New design: Switch things around and stick the CPU into a slot on the GPU.

Weirdly, this is the design of the Raspberry Pi, wherein the GPU bootstraps the system and brings the CPU up. Though it is a somewhat academic distinction, since both live inside the same chip.

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Post by Scene_Cast2 »

msbarnett wrote: post #35

> A 4080 series card will demand a whopping 450 W, No, that was just a rumour that was floating around. The 4080 16GB model is 340W TGP, the 12 GB is 285W TGP out of the box. The 3080 (10 GB) was 320W TGP, as a comparison point.

Perhaps a typo? The 4090 official TDP is 450W.

Re: We Need New Motherboards Before GPUs Collapse Under Their Own Gravity

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Post by teaearlgraycold »

superchroma wrote: post #9
dragontamer wrote: post #7

1. While I agree we're beginning to reach absurd proportions, lets really analyze the situation and think about it. 2. Are there any GPUs that actually have performed physical damage on a motherboard slot? 3. GPUs are already 2-wide by default, and some are 3-wide. 4-wide GPUs will have more support from the chassis. This seems like the simpler solution, especially since most people rarely have a 2nd add in card at a…

RE 2: We were shipping a system with a 980ti and it ripped the PCIE slot off the board despite being propped with foam.

Hard foam? Regardless I'd recommend against shipping with a CPU cooler or GPU installed but some SIs seem to get away with it with self-fitting hard foam packs.
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