MSI Announces Fully Modular Motherboard Supporting Intel & AMD

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It looks like MSI made sure they got the jump on everyone a full day ahead of April 1st with this announcement for The One. Even though this is meant to be a joke, the funny part is that a lot of us would love to have a motherboard like this. Imagine being able to swap sockets, memory types or the amount of PCI-E slots your motherboard has, instead of being forced to upgrade to a whole new board every time a new product launches.
 
This would only be possible if there was some sort of communications converter chip on each board.

With the traces/plugs like in the pictures it would never work.

Something like this would be really cool, but I doubt it will happen just due to cost.
 
This is the sort of thing people think they would want, until they see what it would have to sell for and then they go "I'm not paying that". I wonder if Google will ever actually launch project ara?
 
God I'd love to have a motherboard like this, it'd not only be nice for upgrades but also if some particular part fried. Instead of replacing the whole board, replace that section. So disappointing its an April Fools.
 
I'm honestly not sure if I would want this or not.

I'm leaning towards no.
 
I bet such a motherboard would have a 50% performance penalty. Good way to make your $1000 cpu run like a $100 cpu.
 
These kinds of April Fool's jokes are dumb for 2 main reasons:

1. It's not April 1st (duh)

2. They're not ridiculous enough ideas to be funny, ie, a joke. If they are something that is cool, could potentially exist, and have a good reason to exist, it's not funny.
 
I hate boring April Fools stories. This would actually be an interesting motherboard if it was real, but "ha ha ha April fools!" ? Really?
 
The idea is cool, could never work. BUT if they made a board that looked just like that, I would totally buy it.
 
Someday, for retro gaming fans, emulation in software just isn't geeky enough, and they'll actually build motherboards compatible with 20 year old graphics hardware and operating systems using their 3d vlsi printers and their cheap-as-chips quantum entangled Raspberry 13 SoC modules, and something like this will actually exist. Make Grampy proud by by reviving those Geforce SLI Card thingies you found in the attic for his birthday!
 
Woo if it does end up being real i wonder how many times a bad connection between modules will cause issues...

And i wonder how much support msi will provide as in will they make this thing then NOTHING comes out for it and it then dies and fades from memory... On an upside intel could change sockets all they want then as long as the interconnects matched swap the socket area itself...
 
Lunas said:
Woo if it does end up being real i wonder how many times a bad connection between modules will cause issues...

And i wonder how much support msi will provide as in will they make this thing then NOTHING comes out for it and it then dies and fades from memory... On an upside intel could change sockets all they want then as long as the interconnects matched swap the socket area itself...
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Pretty much... no.
 
Merc1138 said:
Pretty much... no.
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Yeah, it's only possible supporting ancient tech when current tech is a couple orders of magnitude faster. I imagine it's possible to do this now with a 386 or 68000, build a module that serializes all it's signal pins into a single multi gigabit channel, and deserialize the signals at the next module with a 20mhz reference clock. For historical reference only :) Maybe social archeologists in the future will want to emulate our iphones and make something like this for a museum.
 
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This would be big pimpin! Someone needs to make one of these virtually on the Rift....
 
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