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I've never considered that as an idea before, but now am left wondering why it hasn't been done. Guessing the manufacturers make more money from full-unit upgra

I've never considered that as an idea before, but now am left wondering why it hasn't been done. Guessing the manufacturers make more money from full-unit upgrades than they'd expect to make from incremental memory unit purchases (even if they made the RAM slot proprietary).

bryanlarsen 9y ago
Intel has a new chip coming out with AMD graphics and HBM memory: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12220/how-to-make-8th-gen-more-complex-intel-core-with-radeon-rx-vega-m-graphics-launched https://www.anandtech.com/show/12220/how-to-make-8th-gen-mor...
- dkarbayev 9y ago
  But that’s not a desktop CPU. I would gladly buy it if it were.
  - wmf 9y ago
    With a 100W TDP it basically is a desktop CPU.
pkaye 9y ago
HBM is fairly new so it is probably a cost issue for the target market.
undersuit 9y ago
There was a time where you could put an extra DDR2/3 DIMM on some AMD motherboards to complement their chipset based graphics. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/790gx-graphics-sideport,2088-2.html http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/790gx-graphics-sideport,...