Would something like this ever come to the consumer market?

[Elerek]

http://www.supermicro.com/products/superblade/module/SBI-7128RG-F2.cfm

I saw this server blade forever ago and I really wish there was something close to it in the consumer world, or even better, half of it.
If you could cut that thing in half and squeeze in an ethernet jack and some usb on the side, a power button in the front, m.2 on the bottom under the cpu and an ssd under the gpu you'd have a full system in a ridiculously tiny space.

 

[SeñorDonut]

Micro STX is probably the closest we'll get

 

[Biowarejak]

http://www.supermicro.com/products/superblade/module/SBI-7128RG-F2.cfm

I saw this server blade forever ago and I really wish there was something close to it in the consumer world, or even better, half of it.
If you could cut that thing in half and squeeze in an ethernet jack and some usb on the side, a power button in the front, m.2 on the bottom under the cpu and an ssd under the gpu you'd have a full system in a ridiculously tiny space.

I did have an idea awhile back about a custom motherboard roughly the size of a graphics card, oriented so that you could put them back to back. Probably going to be sometime before anything like it comes to fruition in the consumer world.

 

[ChainedHope]

I did have an idea awhile back about a custom motherboard roughly the size of a graphics card, oriented so that you could put them back to back. Probably going to be sometime before anything like it comes to fruition in the consumer world.

I made a model of one of those Skull Canyon nucs with a GPU and one of those M.2-to-PCIe adapters with a R9 Nano and a dedicated 300W pico psu for the GPU once. It came in at ~2L. Really loved the look and was small enough to 3D print a case, but never did it (no funds, nano had issues with PicoPSU).