Junior? Is this a standard condescending term on these boards? How did you guys know that I'm only 2 years old?
I don't know how old you are, nor do I care. But when a noob shows up acting like an ass, telling people to read SLOWLY, and implying that established members of a community are "idiots" if they do not share your way of thinking, I apply nomenclature deserving of their juvenile attitude.
Plus, cefoskey said it first, and I thought it was nifty.
What kind of question is that? I meant exactly what I said.
OK, since your communication problem persists, I will explain SLOWLY.
cefoskey said "ATI and Nvidia would make less money if they offered modular cards."
to which you replied "If you think you can put 1 GHz+ DDR3 RAM in a socket for a reasonable price, then you're an idiot."
To which I said "What do you mean by this?"
... implying that I am trying to understand how the price of 1gb of DDR3 ram invalidates cefoskey's statement that "ATI and Nvidia would make less money if they offered modular cards."
Now it appears that you accidentally answered this in your last post, explaining your train of thought, so you need not further strain to communicate an answer.
However, I do not necessarily agree with your point of view, as there are other factors; such as the cost of making a videocard upgradable in the first place, adding space and slots to the card; and the fact that Nvidia and Ati are both doing essentially the same operation in software with "turbocache" and "Hypermemory" on PCI-e platforms; Also, there is no way to cheaply upgrade, say, a DDR2 memory controller to DDR3; and every generation of GPU's are developed so quickly and are so architecturally different that a standard packaging would almost be impossible.
Interesting line of thought though. But I suspect the real reason is that GPU technology is a much faster moving target. Athlon and Pentium sockets last for years, they have the same amount of pipelines but increase cache and bus speeds... but GPU technology has doubled the number of pipelines in a single generation/year! It's just develops too fast to make a modular solution, unless you're talking SLI or Turbocache type upgrades, which are platform and software based, not really hardware-on-the-card specific.
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