BF2S Forums Will GPUs ever be socketed?

That actually did seem like a good idea at first.  But then imagine how much more surface area you'd need on the Mobo to support mulitple GPUs.  Because the heatsinks that would need to go on top of them would block off a lot of expansion ports or other various plug-ins on the mobo if they stayed the same size as they do right now.  There is a problem with high end graphics cards taking up too much room in PCs today, but there's no way around it until they have an insanely small GPU die size that wont require a massive heatsink to keep it cool.  Water cooling is about the only way to fix that.  But now with SLI 2 around the corner, heat is gonna become a serious issue for GPUs.  You'd know this if you had seen any SLI 2 mock-up pics with 6 8800 GTXs back to back on one mobo.  But for now, expansion cards make the most efficient use of space in the case IMO.

Well, like the others already mentioned, as long as bus speeds are fast enough, the current setup saves pretty a lot of space.

Stacked motherboards.  One for the CPUs and one for the GPUs.  Link them through optical cable.  It means wider cases but so what?  The CPU motherboard would gain space (more room for dual/quad/octa cores!) and so would the graphics board.

The graphics mobo would allow you to upgrade ram and the actual gpu chips the exact same way as with current mobos.  The main one only needs to sit an inch or two above the graphics mobo and the graphics one could have a massive cooling system.

I think it would work.

You would need a "fatherboard!" You can have the best CPU in the world but have rubbish memory, and the same is with graphics. It is all the rage when a new card becomes out because there is new architecture and new cores etc, so you'd need an entire board. Almost like a second system in your computer.