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Idle thought...

Demon-Xanth

Demon-Xanth

Lifer
I was wondering this to myself, if motherboards were designed like videocards, how much faster would they be?

By this, I mean the CPU and RAM soldered close to eachother on the motherboard with a heatsink that can cover as much real estate as need be. Without a connector contact (DIMM slot), and fixed trace dimensions. And no worry about 1,2,3, or 4 DIMMs and such. Could timing be made much tighter, and clock speeds much higher?
 
Seems like at the moment, yes. However isn't it the fact that you have several dozen companies competing to sell you components that drives the technologies forward ultimately?
 
Memory timing doesn't have much effect on performance except in artificial benchmarks, so there wouldn't be a lot of value in this approach.

A few % gain in speed isn't worth the drawbacks of not being able to mix and match different CPUs and amounts of memory.
 
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