Okay well When you look at a gpu you see chips and when you look at cpus...you see chips..when you look at memory you see chips. I wanna know if you think this is crazy bored thinking or a real idea that could possible happen. Well i am aware the cpus have integrated graphics on them but what if. They made a whole know motherboard a whole new chip set that say was 3 times at long at a cpu which housed the chipset for a gtx 460 or even a 4850 along with a cpu like an intel i5 2400k or a phenom II x6. Also what if they changed memory and instead of having sticks of it you had chips about that size of a quarter then you put in ur motherboard and they locked down. Think of the way you could customize cases and stuck having such a smaller platform. I mean if you want sli or another gpu or different one make it so the chips on the cpu/gpu world could b swapable. and even have like enough room to put 4 gpu chips and have sli connectors sticking out of the board and you just need a ribbon cable to connect them. of course you would have to plug the gpu power cables into the motherbored. or even have like a connector by the 24 pin to plug the 4/6/8 pin power cabbles into powering the gpu and cpu. I know this sounds like a far fetched idea but i mean we already have ati 5870 in a laptop which is a very small form factor. I think this idea could possible be done within the next 5-15 years. Also this would open a whole new way of computer building thinking of all the combos you could do and also even use the chip set to have both ati and nvidia cards and mayb even both types of cpus amd and intel of course you will need a whole new cooling bracket for everything but this would open up a new market to them who build cooling parts and even open up a new market to custom case builders and case companies in general. Well idk if im going crazy cuz of the depressing snow weather or if i am from the future slowly getting flash backs haha
I'm admittedly not a computer/electrical engineer, but would question how easily the various connections could be made. Motherboards are typically of certain sizes and layouts for a reason, if there was a strikingly better way then they would use that. Additionally, there's a lot more than just a single chip on a given video card. They have their own memory, power hardware, etc. which would have to be integrated either onto the chip (you're looking at a very large chip now) or onto the motherboard (less flexibility). For heat, you'll also now be looking at taking your GPU and CPU coolers and putting them both on the motherboard. That would get heavy. Unless you just mean to say that, in general, future computers will use smaller parts. Moore's Law already has that one covered.
\Well i didnt think of that but i mean how much does a gpu weight? you can get a cpu cooler that weight less and it would b less flexible and you could have something that would use the memory you put into the motherboard for the gpu and as for powering it power it like u do a mobo thru the 24pin
Well maybe power but hell when you build a gaming machine you got heat and then you go and get good coolers so i mean the heat could b avoided easy power not sure
Again delving a bit deeper than my own understand goes, but GPUs don't use the same memory as the rest of the system. Exactly why I couldn't say, but I could say that having everything access the same pool of memory would likely cause some bandwidth issues. You could perhaps have two seperate banks of memory, one dedicated to the GPU. The problem with power (insert disclaimer about not being a computer engineer, all of this is to my understanding which may not be totally accurate or fully detailed) is that more power, such as the 200W+ of 12V current that video cards use would require heavy traces to travel far. You could do like the 12V CPU power does and have the PCIe cables plug in near the power hardware, but at this point it's ending up being closer to a current PC. Only difference is that rather than plugging in the GPU it'd be part of the motherboard's PCB from the start. For weight, consider larger coolers such as a Titan Fenrir paired with a GTX580. A large enough cooler to remove heat from both a CPU and GPU would put huge strain on the board. If you move the two apart you now have to make sure both coolers are compatible and won't bump into each other (like an SR2). Maybe Bindi will stop by, he'd probably have some good input.
You could put every thing in a single slab of silicon, but you wouldn't reach any benefit if it was one big slab.You would still have various systems running at different speeds and so would still have to connect them in such a way that they all communicate at the same speed (a bus for example). To clarify, systems don't run a different speeds just to be different. They run at those speeds because the specification says they should and also because that is near there hardware limit given present technology. I think you missed the point of silicon based chips in the first place tbh. Before semiconductors every logic gate in a computer comprised of one or more valves plus a few other components. An electrical engineer (from Teas I believe) realized that if all the components could be made out of a single material that the system could be made to be much smaller as they could be made in to a single component rather than than several components. Also bare in mind that silicon is a semi-conductor, thus it has higher resistance than metal. So you want to avoid using it if possible/convenient/practical (like the buses between parts of a computer for example).
