Let's kill off the PCIe slot - we need a better way to install a graphics card

Be honest, when was the last time you installed anything in a PCIe slot that wasn’t a graphics card? We still indulge in this charade, where ATX motherboards come equipped with several 1x and 4x slots for expansion cards, but barely anyone uses them. Meanwhile, the one that does get used for graphics cards is becoming so overburdened that it’s largely not fit for purpose. I say let’s kill off this four-decade-old idea of expansion cards, and yes, that includes the one at the top for GPUs. There has to be a better way. Knowing that a standard plastic slot can't cope with the strain, most of the best gaming motherboard designs currently have PCIe slots reinforced with metal, as well as over-engineered eject systems, and some of the latest graphics cards are so big they won’t fit inside a regular case. Why are we still persevering with a PC hardware system that clearly isn’t up to the job?

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