Colorful shows off motherboard with built-in GTX 1070 GPU

[watercooled]

Maybe I'm missing something but I don't really get why being soldered over MXM makes it something special? It will be inside something like an iMac and probably never seen by the user either way - but at least MXM is upgradeable.

[shaithis]

It will be inside something like an iMac and probably never seen by the user either way

Chinese internet cafes

It'll be an iMak

[scaryjim]

... I don't really get why being soldered over MXM makes it something special? ...

It's by some distance the highest performing graphics part to ever be directly attached to a system motherboard (AFAIK, anyway). The fact that a company has made a design decision that they're going to permanently attach a high end GPU to a motherboard, rather than simply provide an MXM slot that can have any compatible GPU shoved in it, is newsworthy in and of itself, IMO.

OTOH it's a bit odd that they'd go for a soldered on graphics solution but not choose a BGA CPU - there's plenty of high-end BGA chips available from Intel if you go down the Xeon embedded route, and this looks like a perfect platform for those...

[DDY]

...

OTOH it's a bit odd that they'd go for a soldered on graphics solution but not choose a BGA CPU - there's plenty of high-end BGA chips available from Intel if you go down the Xeon embedded route, and this looks like a perfect platform for those...

I reckon it's a matter of maximising performance/cost, for example comparing Intel's cheapest Skylake quad core BGA chip, the i5 6440HQ (2.6/3.5GHz 4C4T) for $250 to the LGA1151 i5 6600 (3.3/3.9GHz 4C4T) for $213.

Then there's Intel's cheapest BGA Skylake Xeon, the E3 1505M (2.8/3.7GHz 4C8T) for $434

Also on the subject of oddness, is the use of mini PCIe slots rather than M.2, considering that other manufactures have made the move half a year ago.

[scaryjim]

I reckon it's a matter of maximising performance/cost, for example comparing Intel's cheapest Skylake quad core BGA chip, the i5 6440HQ (2.6/3.5GHz 4C4T) for $250 to the LGA1151 i5 6600 (3.3/3.9GHz 4C4T) for $213. ....

It's definitely an odd one. If they're that cost sensitive you have to wonder why they went B150 rather than H110, for instance. All sorts of strangeness.

OTOH, I guess they can claim to have the fastest IGP ever...

[watercooled]

I'm not being deliberately contrary, I just don't think something being presented in different packaging for essentially the same product is particularly interesting. Maybe it's just me? :shrug:

[retrend]

This is pretty cool but also probably pretty hot.

I guess if you have watercooling it's fine?

[Neostar]

Why make this? seriously why?

[krazy_olie]

Why make this? seriously why?

Presumably for some kind of custom cooling design appropriate for an AIO or steam machine thing?