Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2012 18:11:56 -0500 From: Yousuf Khan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111222 Thunderbird/9.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.intel,alt.comp.hardware.amd.x86-64 Subject: Re: The end of the road for the DIY PC? References: <50b14e37$1@news.bnb-lp.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.162.170.180 Message-ID: <50ba8ea1@news.bnb-lp.com> X-Trace: news.bnb-lp.com 1354403489 108.162.170.180 (1 Dec 2012 18:11:29 -0400) Organization: Send abuse or DMCA complaints to abuse@bnb-lp.com Lines: 22 X-Authenticated-User: vfa100 X-DMCA-Complaints: Send abuse or DMCA complaints to abuse@bnb-lp.com X-DMCA-Complaints: The subject line should contain only the 4 letters DMCA Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!news.bnb-lp.com!not-for-mail Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips:701 comp.sys.intel:236 On 29/11/2012 5:19 PM, Paul wrote: > Bug Dout wrote: >> But the lack of a replaceable CPU need not doom DIY. I have a 5+ year >> old DIY PC that I am considering upgrading. But since I want USB 3.0 >> ports, >> that means I have to replace the MB anyway, and probably the case to get >> external USB 3.0 ports. And maybe the disk drives to get the latest >> high-speed drives there, and of course memory, to get the best. >> >> The point being, after a couple of years, lots of things have to be >> replaced, not just the CPU. > > Asrock's solution from years ago, was a separate processor > module. Now, this doesn't make a lot of sense, but it gives > another idea of how to chop up hardware if required. The > FSB in that case (edge card), would be HyperTransport. > On an Intel equivalent, that might be DMI or DMI + PCIE. They would need to come up with a standard module across multiple mobo manufacturers. Yousuf Khan