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this post was submitted on 07 Sep 2025
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Fascinating how that product page is full of marketing fluff, but nowhere does it say what this actually is...? What does it do? It's some kind of.... memory expansion? But what's beneath the big heatsink then? All they say is that it's somehow amazing:
A variety of groundbreaking technologies, uh huh, okay then. In so many ways this is the perfect companion product for AI.
Oh, it's a CXL board, Compute Express Link. Basically a way to attach DRAM to PCI Express. I know some people working on this stuff for one of the big vendors, but in that context it was a rack-scale box capable of handling multiple terabytes' worth of DIMMs. Having this as a desktop expansion card seems like a bit of a marginal application, but Gigabyte's done weird shit before. For instance, I have an AMD-compatible Thunderbolt 3 card that was only made in limited quantities by them and ASRock.