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there's nothing like unboxing a shiny new graphics card but they're just so

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bulky why is it that we can't just buy the GPU by itself and Slot it directly

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onto our motherboard like we do for CPUs it turns out there are a lot of reasons

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that it's just not that simple and a big one is power you see a mid to high end

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discrete GPU draws lots of power to the point where it's typically the single

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most power hungry component in your system and you can see this if you look

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at a graphics card with the cooler removed many of those little components

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that you see all over the board are dedicated to power delivery and voltage

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regulation which is part of the reason that graphics cards tend to be quite

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large putting these components onto the motherboard would not only make it

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larger but also significantly more expensive but that's far from the only

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logistical concern another big one is memory you see although integrated

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Graphics can share your system's standard DDR RAM and some lower end

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discrete gpus actually use dedicated but still run-of-the-mill DDR mid and higher

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range options use special video RAM called GDDR with the G being for

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graphics GDDR is higher bandwidth

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because it's designed to handle large chunks of data such as the visual assets

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and textures that your GPU is continually asking for by contrast

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normal DDR is better at handling smaller

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pieces of data so it doesn't have as much bandwidth but its latency is lower

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this means that if you were to put a relatively powerful GPU directly onto a

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motherboard you would also need to build in dedicated GDDR memory which would you

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guessed it make the motherboard even bigger and even more expensive now

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hypothetically you could design this video memory or vram to be slotted in

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rather than slaughtered directly to the graphics card but this actually has the

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possibility of increasing the rate of data errors which is a big part of the

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reason that all modern graphics cards use soldered on vram even if you could

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solve the memory and power issues though there's another big roadblock that will

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motherboard is the socket itself you know how AMD and Intel CPUs use

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completely different socket designs and even within AMD or within Intel you end

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up having to upgrade your motherboard ever so often when they decide to change

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the pin layout well you would have the same problem

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with a GPU socket but arguably worse as

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there are now three discrete GPU manufacturers with Intel entering The

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Fray and GPU architectures tend to be

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updated more frequently and more dramatically than on the CPU side

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meaning that motherboards would go out of date much more quickly not to mention

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that you'd be locked into one CPU vendor and one GPU vendor every time you bought

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a new one none of this even mentions that all those different gpus would

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necessitate different amounts of power delivery and vram so you'd either have

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the problem where you'd need a stupidly huge lineup of different motherboards

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from every manufacturer to accommodate all these different variations or you'd

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have to over engineer every motherboard with enough power and memory to support

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the entire GPU product stack which might put you in a position where you'd have

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to consider selling organs for a motherboard finally there's the reality

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that although graphics cards are hot Commodities with Gamers there are many

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more people out there that don't need a powerful GPU meaning that motherboards

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with GPU sockets on them would be relegated to a very niche market due to

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how expensive they'd be giving manufacturers even less of an incentive

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to make them so for the time being if you want a GPU on your motherboard it's

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probably only going to happen in a laptop or other specialized device on

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the desktop it's just so much cheaper and easier for them to continue doing

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what they've been doing slotting them into universally compatible inexpensive

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PCI Express slots and besides do you

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really want to strap another cooler to your motherboard what you really want to

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do is subscribe yes the video is over bye-bye