If only graphics cards worked like this?

[LeperousDust]

You buy your main/base/mother board which allows it to communicate with PCIe or AGP or whatever, this mainboard gives the option of using an ATI or nVidia GPU, you choose how powerful you want it to be, and also install the ammount of memory you want too.

What would be even better is if you could plug in old pin compatible processors to do the dedicated GPU work, yes they might not be as efficient, but at 3GHz do they need to be in some cases!

It will probably never happen, but it would be nice...

 

[lay-z-boy]

In theory, it can be done, many gpu's are pcb compatible with older, newer or faster core's.

x1800 - x1900
nvidia x6xx series

nvidia was going to try it a while back but there are a huge number of problems that arise when you move the memory and core to separates instead of them being directly soldered to the board they are designed for.

 

[LeperousDust]

Yes but mainboards we know today* use to be hindered with the same soldered memory.


*OK maybe not today, but you get the idea