Upradeble VBoards?

[HaRDWaRe_PiMP]

A video card that has an upgradeble GPU and VRAM was my idea few years back. I asked my self the same question - y cant the companies make an upgradeble VBoard. There were alot of reasons that came almost imediatly to my mind, but one came to me about 6 month after my intencive resrch on that subject - COST. Cost - NOT TO THE CONSUMERS, but to the manifactuires:

just think how much money will the manufactures LOSE if they would build an apgradeble VBords- even if they would price a card $1000 - they still wont make enough money as they would selling 200-600 dollar cards each

just think about it
- average computer user will buy 3-5 Vcards in his/her computing life thats about $2000
- a gamer will buy about 5-9 Vcards in his/her computing life thats about $3600
- a graphix profecional will buy 4-7 cards in his/her computing life (prices will 800-2000) thats about $11000(!)


technology is very resilient - its the manufactures pockets that aren't

 

[Vigilant]

A card is much more than just the GPU and the RAM chips. There are capacitors and resistors and a whole load of other crap in there.

If you visually compare a card from even two years ago to something right now, you will see major architectural changes. Cards just a LOT more power than before, plus new chips require new traces. And don't forget that faster and different RAM requires new timing
circuitry.

Not to mention that discrete RAM would be a lot slower too.

BTW, most graphics cards sold cost under $100. It's only gamers and power users that pay $200-$1000 for a board.

And your math is really screwed up too. The average computer user does NOT spend $400 on a graphics card.