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ZiNgA BuRgA · 14/04/2010 03:23 PM

Some random thing that popped up for me.

Well, it's known that CPU connectors are "proprietary", eg you need an Intel board to plug in an Intel CPU.
However, GPUs can fit into any standard PCI-e x16 slot, but what are the prospects of a company like AMD going proprietary?

IDK if there's any legalities here or not (if there are, ignore them).

But as AMD now makes CPUs and GPUs, and with the success of their GPUs right now, they may actually be able to gain something from such a lock in.

What do you think?

Hellgiver · 14/04/2010 03:50 PM

I'd hate for that to happen! GPUs and CPUs are constantly changing, and upgrading can already turn into a chore for many of us. I hated having to deal with multiple mounting bracket types, and being forced to use DDR3 RAM already. I don't want to have half my options taken away depending on which I go with.

As far as from a corporate point of view goes, I have little input. I can't know what their research has shown, be it that their highest income is from upgraders, or from new consumers, or whether they see that enough people wouldn't be too put out by such a move. Lots more variables I'm sure, but all I can really give an opinion on is how it'd affect me short-term.

Vegetano1 · 15/04/2010 10:36 AM

its a stupid idee there is alot of people making custom builds and want to be able to switch between graphics cards later on,. so fudge you amd,. Madwin

Slushba132 · 15/04/2010 02:32 PM

hmmm...
I always thought it would be nice to have some type of chip that you can put into the cpu slot that redirects the pins to newer chips' updated locations...
sort of like a socket adapter so you can upgrade your cpu if it is highly outdated...
idk how well this would catch on though...
or how big of a market there is for it

I guess in the end, I prefer to have everything interchangeable because it makes it nice and easy to upgrade or swap parts as necessary...

because right now on my desktop I'm stuck with a 1.8ghz single core and a 8x agp graphics card....

j_p_24 · 15/04/2010 03:41 PM

Keeping choice has got to be better.

"As AM3 processors also support DDR2, they are backwards-compatible with Socket AM2/AM2+"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket_AM3

Something Intel dosn't do.

ZiNgA BuRgA · 16/04/2010 01:10 AM

AMD are probably doing it with their sockets because they're behind Intel though (so they can appeal to more markets to stay in the game).
I doubt AMD would do that if they were on par or better than Intel.

Doing such a move may damage PR, but perhaps if they can somehow justify something like PCI-e x16 not offering enough bandwidth, they could transition users to a proprietary connector. In fact, there already is somewhat a reason - GPGPU stuff like CUDA/OpenCL's main weakness is the high latency between it and the CPU/RAM - it can be argued that this new connector would reduce latencies, and justified.

Vegetano1 · 16/04/2010 01:33 AM

(16/04/2010 01:10 AM)ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote: Doing such a move may damage PR, but perhaps if they can somehow justify something like PCI-e x16 not offering enough bandwidth, they could transition users to a proprietary connector. In fact, there already is somewhat a reason - GPGPU stuff like CUDA/OpenCL's main weakness is the high latency between it and the CPU/RAM - it can be argued that this new connector would reduce latencies, and justified.

they went from pci>agp>pci-express so why not make a universel new faster socket anyway,..

I am guessing this might be a bad idee,. Hihi

people don't want 2 different sockets,.

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