Intel PCIe Socketable Computer: Ghost Canyon NUC SFF PC

[Journey]

Just putting this out there, I am sure lots of you folk will find this fascinating, but it is literally decades old technology.

When he says baseboard he means backplane, and and the "socketable" computer is just an SBC in half size form factor. This is industrial computing brought to the mainstream, with a more bespoke approach.

I'm expecting them to launch mini-AT next.

 

[Ice Tea]

Look on the left at around 40 seconds.

 

[Avalon]

So basically the same idea as people were doing decades ago with 386 and 486 upgrade boards, but with the ability to access a common PCIe controller and access a dedicated GPU. While I can see potential for high density clustering, it doesn’t seem like much of a form factor saving vs. ITX for most people, and that’s already a very small part of the market, it feels like Compute Stick mk2.

 

[Ice Tea]

https://twitter.com/GamersNexus/status/1214681727412523008

 

[Quartz]

it doesn’t seem like much of a form factor saving vs. ITX for most people,

Most ITX boxes are huge in comparison.

 

[Journey]

I'd love to know how it differs from PICMG 1.3 boards, as the back-plane does look like it only uses a normal 16x PCI-E slot, where as the half-size SBC's that fit PICMG 1.3 use something similar to extended PCI-E interface, I not it is also a double slot PCI board rather than single to accommodate the I/O and the custom cooling solution.

 

[Deleted member 66701]

I remember adding a 486 "PC on a card" to my Amiga 3000 back in the day

http://amiga.resource.cx/search.pl?cat=ibm&product=#goldengate

 

[Journey]

I remember adding a 496 "PC on a card" to my Amiga 3000 back in the day

http://amiga.resource.cx/search.pl?cat=ibm&product=#goldengate

Not seen a Zorro II card for years, if I recall the interface ran at an astonishing 7.16MHz which was enough to move about 3.5Mbps.

 

[Avalon]

I remember adding a 486 "PC on a card" to my Amiga 3000 back in the day

http://amiga.resource.cx/search.pl?cat=ibm&product=#goldengate

I still have the 286? version somewhere... along with an A3K, A2K and a few 1200’s.

Most ITX boxes are huge in comparison.

By the time you add a full size GPU which is the major benefit, not so much.

 

[silvagti]

I can see this being pretty popular amongst the small form factor gaming crowd given it allows you to easily add your own GPU, RAM and SSD.

I'd definitely be tempted by something like this the next time I upgrade my PC depending on pricing. It'll be interesting to see how it compares to a custom mini-ITX gaming PC in terms of benchmarks/pricing.

 

[Avalon]

I can see this being pretty popular amongst the small form factor gaming crowd given it allows you to easily add your own GPU, RAM and SSD.

I'd definitely be tempted by something like this the next time I upgrade my PC depending on pricing. It'll be interesting to see how it compares to a custom mini-ITX gaming PC in terms of benchmarks/pricing.

Less than favourably as a custom ITX build would have the same GPU options in theory and the option of a higher end CPU/easy upgrade path and overclocking.

 

[silvagti]

Less than favourably as a custom ITX build would have the same GPU options in theory and the option of a higher end CPU/easy upgrade path and overclocking.

I assmume it's a safe bet the ITX will be quicker due to the use of desktop CPU's/etc versus the laptop parts in the NUC. Be interesting to compare how much of a hit performance takes and how the NUC holds up in terms of price/performance though.......