hmm this is kinda big

[pcclan]

asus rampage pci-ex16 expanders that will blow the socks off of any prebuild case period
http://tinyurl.com/2vpcva7

[interceptor1985]

how, why and what would anybody use that for?

[slaveofconvention]

Folding@home - PPD could be scary :p

[Konrad]

I think a heavy multi-proc server board (with similar number of slots, multiple MCHs, and tons more DIMMs) could cost less.

Do each of these expander boards mount their own MCH/chipset?

Is total bandwidth still bottlenecked by the (single) processor QPI?

[Oneslowz28]

There is something much cooler than this coming out very soon. I can not disclose any details but its going to be huge!