[HWR_14]

I'd imagine that you can have the power to the board shut off when not in use.

But I never assumed it was to be cost competitive at current token rates. I assumed it was for the same reasons people might use open source hardware. Freedom to tinker, etc.

[rtkwe]

Basically sounds like a hobo version of PCI-e hotswapping which is a thing on enterprise motherboards but not many consumer boards. Also depends on if the board can actually power off the slots which I'm not sure many are setup to do.