Newb Question: Why don't they make mobos with two sockets for CPU & GPU?

[James Woods]

I assume there's a good reason for it. Right?

[ThyFeared]

EDIT: I totally read the title wrong.

[ELSknutson]

they do on laptops

but I see what your saying. I would have to say for cooling purpouses I guess. aslo custimization maybe.

[ELSknutson]

CPU only goes into a socket and there are many types of sockets such as LGA-1150 1155 2011 and AM3+ (AMD)

Whilst a GPU goes into a lane called PCI or PCI-E or if you're old school AGP

 

 

If you take a GPU appart there is still a proccessor inside. Why couldent motherboard makers intigrade that to there boards and make the pci slots obsolete.

[ThyFeared]

If you take a GPU appart there is still a proccessor inside. Why couldent motherboard makers intigrade that to there boards and make the pci slots obsolete.

I edited my post

[AnnoyedShelf]

I assume there's a good reason for it. Right?

They do.  Just not at the consumer level.  That kind of stuff is reserved for professional applications like servers, as it doesn't make sense for a consumer to have one.  You can, however, have multiple GPU's at the consumer level.

 

Link to a dual-socket server motherboard:

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813132256

[DavidTheWin]

Where would the socket go? There's no room among other reasons such as power delivery and memory slots.

[DavidTheWin]

They do.  Just not at the consumer level.  That kind of stuff is reserved for professional applications like servers, as it doesn't make sense for a consumer to have one.  You can, however, have multiple GPU's at the consumer level.

 

Link to a dual-socket server motherboard:

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813132256

 

Read more closely, he's asking about a dual socket board where one socket fits a CPU and one socket fits a GPU.

[AnnoyedShelf]

Read more closely, he's asking about a dual socket board where one socket fits a CPU and one socket fits a GPU.

Oh shoot, sorry.

[AnnoyedShelf]

You could never make PCI-E obsolete, at least not now.  There numerous expansion cards from lots of different companies that serve many different purposes, and getting rid of a universal format is kind of tough.

[James Woods]

Would there even be a performance increase to have the GPU on a socket as opposed to PCI-E assuming you could fit them all on a mobo?

[harrynowl]

Would there even be a performance increase to have the GPU on a socket as opposed to PCI-E assuming you could fit them all on a mobo?

Still goes through northbridge

[Dango]

I assume there's a good reason for it. Right?

the graphic cards are realy complex.

a single gpu kinda like a cpu+mobo+ram.

so, if a mobo sopport socket gpu, everything will be limited and so much more things need to pick.

[Linux User]

nVidia and AMD GPUs would use different sockets, creating the need for X99+AMD boards, X99+nVidia boards, Z97+AMD boards, Z97+nVidia boards, AM3++nVidia boards, AM3++AMD boards, FM2++AMD boards and FM2++nVidia boards. That's a lot. Then there's also the need to make GDDR5 memory modules. And think about the practicality of having 5 air coolers bolted to a board in 4way SLi/CF. In short, it will be very impractical

[rockmassif]

Really not a good idea for us.

 

You can't just remove your Haswell CPU and mount another one based on different architecture like Haswell-E or AMD FX but that is okay because CPU is not something that you would want to replace every 6 months.

 

But this is not the same for GPUs. What happens when you want to upgrade from Kepler to Maxwell? What happens when you don't like Maxwell and want to try new AMD GPUs? Are you gonna change motherboard everytime? You can now build a system based on 5960X and use it for many years with many different GPUs. This wouldn't be possible if we didn't have what we have now on consumer level. And we didn't even talk about SLI-CF capabilities yet.

 

It's really not that practical for people like us.

[SkilledRebuilds]

/Still waiting on Dual-APU motherboards to be a thing... Hybrid APU Crossfire would be nice (for some)