A loud idea
Guys, I have an idea: what if we build the ultimate, zero-empty-slot LGA1155 "FrankenTablet" Monster by tracking down a mythical Gigabyte G1.Sniper 3 (Z77) with its native PLX PEX 8747 switch chip to create a machine with absolutely every single PCIe slot, pin, and legacy header physically populated? The brain of this beast will be a delidded Core i7-3770K running at 5.0 GHz with Liquid Metal under a massive Noctua NH-D15 with a TRIPLE 140mm fan configuration, pushing 32GB of DDR3 RAM to 2400 MHz (4x8GB) to stress the Ivy Bridge IMC to its absolute limits, all paired with an overclocked GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition and powered by a Tier-A 1500W Titanium PSU. Storage will be a pure SSD, 24TB three-tier hierarchy inside Windows with zero HDDs: a 512GB mSATA drive for the OS boot, a 16TB RAID 0 array (4x 4TB) on the SATA III ports, an 8TB RAID 0 array (4x 2TB) on the SATA II ports, and a blazing fast 4TB NVMe RAID 0 array (4x 1TB) on a Quad M.2 adapter card plugged into the second PCIe x16 slot, leveraging the PLX chip to bypass Z77 boot limitations and chase 12,000 MB/s sequential speeds. The rest of the board will be completely choked, using the third PCIe slot for a 4K60 Capture Card, the fourth for a micro OLED Telemetry Display for real-time VRM/CPU/GPU temps, the x4 slots for a USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 card hosting Wi-Fi 7/8 and Bluetooth dongles, the legacy PCI slot for an analog Creative Sound Blaster card, and the rear video/USB ports hooked to a custom 9-inch touchscreen mounted on a Hyte Y70 case to make it the ultimate "tablet". To top off the madness, this rig will simultaneously drive an 8-monitor matrix via BIOS iGPU multi-monitor tracking: 3x 1440p 165Hz OLED displays in Nvidia Surround for ultra-fluid retro Quake II gameplay on the GPU, plus 2x vertical 144Hz monitors and 2x legacy CRT monitors running at 1024x768 @ 120Hz on the motherboard's native VGA and DVI ports for zero input-lag telemetry, all controlled by a mechanical keyboard and an elite gaming mouse connected together through a PS/2 Y-Splitter cable into the single combo port to bypass USB polling and use raw hardware interrupts with the mouse port overclocked to 200Hz
