Intel's Ghost Canyon NUC brings hardware modularity to a new level

[WYP]

Intel's "Element" concept is coming to fruition.



Read more about Intel's Ghost Canyon NUC.

 

[AlienALX]

I gotta say that is pretty amazing really.

 

[Giggyolly]

Oh the motherboard is on what looks like a X16 PCIe card that installs into another expansion board. That's super interesting.
I wonder what would happen if you plugged that into your motherboard, a co-processor?

 

[WYP]

Oh the motherboard is on what looks like a X16 PCIe card that installs into another expansion board. That's super interesting.
I wonder what would happen if you plugged that into your motherboard, a co-processor?

I don't think much of anything would happen aside from confusing the PC you plug it into. Better to use the PCIe lanes to connect the PC to another set of PCIe lane than to create a completely new interface.

 

[demonking]

Nice bit of kit TBH.
mobile i7 plenty of m.2's that are actively cooled by that CPU fan
enough spare juice to whack a good 1080p gaming card in there.

Impressive I want one as a secondary for when my kids are fighting over mine

I don't think much of anything would happen aside from confusing the PC you plug it into. Better to use the PCIe lanes to connect the PC to another set of PCIe lane than to create a completely new interface.https://forum.overclock3d.net/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=1011973

Imagine what could be done if Intel wanted to though. Whack one of these in a spare PCI-e and have the drivers use this "system" to run all background task's leaving the main system for the heavier workloads and user controlled programmes. I get there is a hell of a lot more to it than how I have just described it but, it is still something that if there was a market or a good reason for it then its possible.