GPU Motherboard Socket

[CorrND]

Crazy idea of the day:

Why has no one ever thought of making a GPU socket for motherboards? Unify the video and system memory or provide separate memory slots for video and system memory. Let the user decide which GPU and how much/which kind of memory they want.

 

[Nick5324]

This has been brought up before. I don't remember why, but having a GPU socket on a motherboard isn't as simple as it would seem. *shrug*

 

[erwos]

The main issue is that even mid-end video RAM is clocked so high and has such tight timing needs that you couldn't use a DIMM-type memory slot for it. GPUs would also get more expensive, since they would have to support many different types of memory configurations (eg, even low-end GPUs would be forced to have huge pin-outs and more transistors).

-Erwos