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minus-squarebarsoap@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoThe reason is flexibility, the board manufacturer can decide how many PCIe lanes to send where, how many USB ports there’s going to be etc. Modern mainboards are a power delivery system and IO backplane.
minus-squareumbrella@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agothis makes sense but can’t it be done with integrated chipsets too?
The reason is flexibility, the board manufacturer can decide how many PCIe lanes to send where, how many USB ports there’s going to be etc. Modern mainboards are a power delivery system and IO backplane.
this makes sense but can’t it be done with integrated chipsets too?