Asetek Unveils Rad Card Industry's First Slot-In PCIe Radiator Card

[Toothless]

So many salty people that miss the point of this product.

A lot of people have empty PCI slots, and do water cooling, and what if, maybe, you know, instead of a blower fan its a triple slot with two 120mm fans like a normal rad but its sitting in a PCI spot? What if it adds more radiator space for them watercooling people? What if this thing that just came out gets better and makes a difference for people that it caters to?

What if some of y'all just chill.

 

[Assimilator]

Asetek, how 'bout you put these in the trash, the same place that your patents belong?

 

[Chrispy_]

Asetek, how 'bout you put these in the trash

These products work just fine, they serve a purpose that few competitors have solutions for, they are an option that add choice to the market without taking anything away from the market. Only an idiot would disagree with that.

...the trash, the same place that your patents belong?

Now we can agree. Asetek should be slandered with all the malice and hate they deserve for what is clearly 'a dick move' to the industry and consumers alike.

 

[trom89]

Can you imagine the sag on those poor boards?

btw only ATX boards have 5+ slots

 

[claes]

When will we abandon ATX? You’d think Dell would just make a custom PCB...

 

[gamefoo21]

When will we abandon ATX? You’d think Dell would just make a custom PCB...

Technically we've tried it's called BTX...

The DIY market reacted with absolute hatred and... BTX is basically only OEM and uncommon.

ATX lives on...

 

[claes]

Technically we've tried it's called BTX...

The DIY market reacted with absolute hatred and... BTX is basically only OEM and uncommon.

ATX lives on...

Ah, yes — I remember seeing samples that my dad’s friend was looking at back then! He didn’t like it either, but I don’t remember why. Looking at it now it looks like an advancement over ATX too me... What was the hatred about (besides the wonky CPU cooling )?

Still, without a NB/SB, with most users only needing one (really, zero) expansion slots, where most desktop users who do need those slots only really need cooling for 2 of those devices, where desktops are becoming obsolete for most of the market, where itx and ribbon cables are the l33t thing now, etc, we could really be doing better for cooling (and probably integrated devices, but I don’t know anything about that).

 

[Valantar]

Ah, yes — I remember seeing samples that my dad’s friend was looking at back then! He didn’t like it either, but I don’t remember why. Looking at it now it looks like an advancement over ATX too me... What was the hatred about (besides the wonky CPU cooling )?

Still, without a NB/SB, with most users only needing one (really, zero) expansion slots, where most desktop users who do need those slots only really need cooling for 2 of those devices, where desktops are becoming obsolete for most of the market, where itx and ribbon cables are the l33t thing now, etc, we could really be doing better for cooling (and probably integrated devices, but I don’t know anything about that).

Replacing a standard that entrenched is near impossible. Either the new standard must be backwards compatible (mounting holes, I/O and expansion slot locations) or every single case design in the world would need retooling to fit it. Retooling a case costs anywhere from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollar. Per design. The case industry would also need to learn how to make cases for the new standard at similar costs to ATX, while also allowing for airflow etc., which would take ages (and likely bankrupt most of them before they ever got there). The same of course goes for all OEMs designing their own cases, though the concern is smaller for them due to higher sales volumes and margins (except for the ones who outsource case design to case makers, of course).

And of course lack of a wide selection of compelling compatible cases would make adoption of the motherboards near nonexistent, meaning the cases wouldn't sell, meaning even fewer people would buy the cases... and there you have what happened to BTX.

The good thing about all this is that an ATX replacement is largely unnecessary these days. ITX is compatible and sufficient for >99% of PCs out there, and its smaller size allows for more varied case designs and form factors. A possible improvement would be some sort of mix of DTX and mATX to allow for four RAM slots and two PCIe while allowing for smaller cases than mATX, though I highly doubt anything like that will ever happen given that it would be a niche market competing with three well established alternatives.

 

[Chrispy_]

The only thing that ruins so many mITX cases is the unnecessary pandering to the "must-have-mutliple-radiators-and-a-window-to-see-all-the-watercooling" crowd - making mITX cases almost entirely full of empty space and ruining the single most important role of mITX - to occupy as little space as possible.

In theory, my ideea mITX case is as small as reasonably possible to accommodate an mITX boad and top-flow air cooler, an SFX PSU and a typical 10.5" dual-slot GPU. Given the height of a PCIe card, it's pretty much guaranteed to also have space for a 3.5" or a couple of 2.5" drives too.

 

[svan71]

ermm its specifically for those people though, those that dont know nor care about the inside, they just want a "badass gaming pc" and that is it.

My friend bought one of those "bad ass gaming pc's" Paid $4500 for a 1st gen threadripper. Dell never updated the bios to support 2ND gen much less 3RD cpus. Its big its ugly inside and out and loud.