Recent content by SaperPL

To revive this topic a bit - some stuff is happening: Both Gigabyte and MSI coming out with such designs. Few things to note that I think are interesting here: I spammed most of the vendors with the idea of how such card should look like last year and mostly didn't get any response, but...

I've been checking out some stuff from ADT-Link and noticed they have this: aliexpress.com/item/1005009493788278.html - K33UF-BK finally at 5cm Note the slot body orientation on the PCB - this is the style supported by Sentry 1.0/1.1 and 2.0. And note that documentation here doesn't even...

Why would ITX card be 2 slot and not 1 slot ? :> The 5090 shows that you can dissipate a lot of heat in a 2 slot card if there's a lot of vent through area, and there's an awesome example of how it can be done cheaper, done by gigabyte: So in essence, if you squeeze everything upfront, you...

I think the target of making it more cumbersome is not us, the tech savvy people, but companies that buy systems at volume and someone in charge / responsible for upgrades will not risk his job on $2 power connector adapters from china. I think the reason those second hand office systems are so...

After tinkering with many ideas, I think we should want and push for just three things with the graphics card form factor: make cards in pci-e reference size, not all of them, but if you want SFF badge, they should be reference sized internal placement of the cable like in sapphire's card so...

Take a look a the stealth/hidden cable problem as well. Card needs to be longer than the motherboard to be able to route the cable to the backplane there, otherwise you would have to sqash cables between the motherboard and card to go around the board. Supporting or even expecting the stealth...

I think I did pester Linus on his forum about bringing up this topic in video and based on his response I believe he gave up on talking to nvidia about this because it's how they want it to be, or he's not going to waste time on things that he sees will not have any effect. About the fins being...

I agree with this approach, but there's one piece of the puzzle that you're missing here - I'd even prefer the connectors on the top edge like you've shown here, except maybe at 267mm in cases where you want to go around the card and need to do it in the same plane, you'd need the card to be...

I have and used both gigabyte's GTX 1080 and RTX 2070 Mini and I do not recommend it, at least the cards from that time. Their semi-passive mode keeps failing to wake up when their app freezes, and it often does freeze up. Also there's no reasonable hysteresis handling for the fan semi-passive...

How does the cable you plug into this thing look like? Is that DC from external brick or AC directly from mains? Why not use molex 3-pin cable here? I like the way it's assembled, but what are the exact dimensions of this?

That's not necessarily the point that everyone involved should have contacts. Also contacts in the industry don't necessarily make things happen on their own. There are two points for not doing such things alone - first one is that one person will always miss something that can be later an...

I put in some hours into outlining the height requirement in my doc, will have to try and make some proper drawings for thickness (2-slot requirements / explanation) and length, and then showcase some case topology variants which will probably burn most of the time here. I'm not sure how should...

Just so we are on the same page - am I thinking about the same thing as rest of you guys? Keeping the possible fitting from pci reference design like this? This is corresponding with how we assumed 112 mm reference size + 18 mm of room required for PEG cable bend in Sentry. Note how stupid...

I don't think those APUs will be actually approx performance of desktop RTX 4070 - maybe when compared to laptop ones, where you have similar chip, even when it's not cut down number of compute units for laptop version, but the TDP is reduced in comparison to desktop. With that said, 4060 laptop...

I drafted out a doc showing how I envision such document with a standard, although note this is a rough draft without actual drawings and images yet, but with list of things that should end up in there. Noteworthy is that I think we could get more people and case makers on board if we also...