Patent attributes
A computing system including a housing assembly having a front and a rear, a CPU module positioned towards the front of the housing assembly and including a plurality of I/O connectors, and a plurality of I/O modules positioned towards the rear of the housing assembly, where each I/O module includes a second I/O connector. The computing system also includes a plurality of riser cards each having a PCB with opposing side surfaces, a front edge, a rear edge, a top edge, a bottom edge, a third I/O connector coupled to the bottom edge and a fourth I/O connector coupled to the rear edge. The third I/O connector on each riser card is connected to one of the first I/O connectors and the fourth I/O connector on each riser card is connected to one of the second I/O connectors so that the riser cards are oriented in parallel with each other.
