There is literally no reason for a GPU PCB to be longer than 17cm or a mono to be larger than itx the only reason they make larger PCB is people think bigger is better value
I can see the argument for GPU that it allows larger cooler but you could still have small PCB and cooler overhang
It makes me sad people buying boards with 50% of the PCB empty is a sign of human regression and death of advancement in the industry
Counterpoint: having a bigger pcb means lanes can be further apart from each other, slightly reducing the chance of a board being DOA. also cooling but who cares
Henry Powell
So you can put a GPU inside without it blocking 2 other PCIe slots
Austin Scott
big card = big power that's why you find cards with shrouds that extend past where the pcb ends, it's all to do with marketing
Dude, you appear to be telling everyone that your willy is smaller than a macdonalds french fry with a walnut glued to it
Owen Lopez
Dumb people think they will SLI one day or need 4 nvme yet they fail to realise you can sli with a single 16x port with bitfucation adapter and pcie cables and that nvme is a laptop meme that doesn't belong in destops and a new sata style thing will be out soon
Even itx is excessively large now and there are two sizes smaller than it and sbc stuff that's fast enough for 99% of users and even 99% of games other than bf5 or pro csgo or some thing where you want 500fps
I'm fairly sure I'm building my last computer and the thing I'll have after it will resemble a console (but I'll run own OS etc on it)
Soon we will reach the point that monitors are limiting gaming not processing hardware and building a custom rig will only give you like a 5ms advantage and run it at 500fps while ya prebuilt apu soc single board thing will run at 250fps
No way am I cutting up my hands and screwing shit together for 5ms atm PC are like 80ms faster than apu consoles and making ya pc faster than others can make it 25-50ms faster than a potato or onboard PC but APIs will improve in next 5 years and by 2025 IMO building PC will be pointless and apu small prebuilt shit will be only like 5ms behind some prebuilt beast and the real limiting factor will be affording a 480hz screen or 1000hz VR set
Leo Phillips
I wager 98% of even hardcore PC users never install a pcie card other than a single GPU for entire life of system until its so slow its worth -10$ for the coat of trashing it
Christian Rodriguez
Even if I did have a huge dick I still wouldn't want empty pcb it doesn't make ya system look powerful it makes it look like some hand made kit science project you painted stripes over
Nolan Mitchell
if you need a cooler with footprint of a half od itx board to cool a fucking CPU why does board size even bother anyone? Also mobile versions of cpus/gpus are generally not up to performance as desktop counterparts and aren't designed to be ran all day for many years, also noise is the issue, if you cool a 1080 with a fucking macbook size blower fan you can't game without headphones. And i'd gladly sacrifice that useles space under my desk or near some shelf or whatever in return of low noise.
Everyone that actually works on computer all day with demanding tasks as video editing, rendering 3d stuff, cad, etc. will agree. You can't run a fucking laptop size cooler on a pc that works 24/7 heavy load.
