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GPU Graphic motherboard.... ?

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Nvidia2000

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Haha, i know this will sound silly. But here's what i think in the future.
Will there be a graphic motherboard where it allows u to custom pick a GPU and ram? i still remember that in the 286 computer, cpu and motherboard are in one piece. Will it ever happen to have a GPU motherboard? maybe in 2003 or 2004.... It would sound so cool! like having a:

Asus GPU Motherboard supporting: Nvidia geforce 6 500MHz ~ 700 MHz
Radeon4 400MHz ~ 600 MHz
Kyro 4 300MHz ~ 400MHz

Supporting 32/64/128/256 DDR or QDR ram
AGP 8x/16x compatible

HAHAH.... i wish these things exist! 😛
 
I think what he was trying to get across is a motherboard that has a transplantable GPU - you can buy the GPU separately and plug it in. If you don't like it, you can buy another one. Same goes for RAM.
 
I think he means have a socket for your GPU.

Like you do for your CPU now. Then nVidia just manufacturers chipset instead of whole boards.

I dunno how well that would work though becuase the GPU needs a big fan RAM bandwidth...so you'd need like 256bit RAM going to the GPU socket...

A CPU can make up for this with caches...but the GPU needs very very fast acess to the whole frame buffer, and a few textures at a time...if you were to use slow memory like a CPU you'd need at least 8MB of Cache on a GPU.
 
I remember that in an old interview i read this design would be too expensive because of the speed of the ram, they would have to package the chip and make a socket interface and it would be way too expensive.
 
Theoretically they could do it pretty easily, but like what someone said (in the thread I had over the same topic) thats why we have AGP. 😉

These will never happen although they are feasible:

1. Super-Bandwidth L3 cache/shared video memory
2. Standard GPU socket (we already have the AGP port)
3. Standard Interleaved-DDR* (L3) sockets

*High-speed DDR(-II?), not regular 184-pin DDR 😀
 
If such a method became popular I'd think we'd see this feature integrated into standard motherboards. Have a socket for your cpu, your gpu, your gpu's ram and your cpu's ram (or an option to let them share if funds are limited). They used to have the math coprocessor (FPU unit) seperate and you could swap out one for another. I kinda wish that this feature hadn't gone away. You always used to hear about how Cyrix and IDT chips weren't bad but had a sorry FPU unit. Wouldn't it be nice (well, it would have been 3-4 years ago 🙂) to couple a Cyrix chip with an AMD FPU? Oh well. . . .
 
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