If we are going to need more and more power then instead of filling up all of our motherboard slots with video boards (check out Toms latest Quad SLi article for a very graphic example) and leaving no space for any other add in cards, why don't we have a GPU socket on our motherboards instead?
Just think about it - now AMD has ATi, it is the perfect opportunity. You could have a similar system to the way the Xbox works with a large chunk of unified RAM for the system to call on. It would have to be very fast memory of course, but I think this would be a great solution.
Also this would be a much better way to offload physics calculations to the processor with the spare capacity (the CPU & GPU could have a super fast Hyper transport type link). And think of the piece and quiet if you could use full size CPU heatsinks on a GPU instead of a loud, thin solution?
Think of it as suped up on board graphics - heck it would be just like multi CPU motherboards which have been around for years.
Just think about it - now AMD has ATi, it is the perfect opportunity. You could have a similar system to the way the Xbox works with a large chunk of unified RAM for the system to call on. It would have to be very fast memory of course, but I think this would be a great solution.
Also this would be a much better way to offload physics calculations to the processor with the spare capacity (the CPU & GPU could have a super fast Hyper transport type link). And think of the piece and quiet if you could use full size CPU heatsinks on a GPU instead of a loud, thin solution?
Think of it as suped up on board graphics - heck it would be just like multi CPU motherboards which have been around for years.