Yud2006

I see how using sockets can make it more expensive than soldering the parts on But would it be more expensive across 2 gen upgrade? Buying a card with 4GB then adding 4GB more or replacing the GPU (assuming you'll be able to buy and sell 2nd handed part just like you do with cards) I mean - if you're a content creator vs gamer - you'd have more flexibility to solve your bottleneck based on your workflow/task-load Thanks for answering - Really good points!

Good point - but isn't that almost the same as bios/board/cpu combos? If you introduce a new architecture and a compatibility layer it's totally doable without putting the burden (more than now) on the software side to optimize (not more than today)

So - I was wondering - if we look at graphic cards today, they are basically consist of a board ram an the gpu itself. so why aren't graphic cards modular - I mean, a point can be made that you can have a socket for replacing the gpu's and ram - you can even update firmware to support this no? this way I can buy a high end pcb with proper cooling, and as much ram as I want and replace the main gpu with more computing units periodically so what do you think - how dumb of an idea this is?

Not opening a new thread since I DID read the guideline To the topic - Having built my first PC with via 486 (yes Im old) I would LOVE to see an LTT episode on this. As far as I could find data online, there is no plan to take this outside of the Chinese market.