Crazy expansion card idea: CPU+GPU combo

Creators & Developers Expansion Card
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Back in the old Commodore Amiga times, there was basically the option to hack your machine optionally with so called Turbo card. What would happen, if we could have a Framework motherboard with PCI-E expansion possibility, where we can buy an single prepared CPU+GPU combo card with some extra memory slots, and when you insert this expansion card, basically disables the old motherboard soldered CPU+GPU, and turns into the old machine into a upgradeable workstation. Of course this change would be significant if Framework motherboard has soldered cheap APU combos by default.

More crazy idea would be the dual usage of both worlds: I mean switching between the two, or combining the motherboard and the expansion card calculation power together.

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Or keep internal computing on and put an AI accelerator in the module. May need some cooling outriggers, though.

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I would think expansion cards are too small. This is more of an Expansion Bay idea for the upcoming 16"; perhaps you should repost there.

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That’s not possible anymore, but Framework does literally sell easily swappable upgrade motherboards…

It would be pretty neat to have a modern version of Latitude ON though, something like a CM4 in the Expansion Bay using the DP in, but like I mentioned in the lapdock thread I don’t know if it could interface directly with the screen.

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At least the expansion bay int the 16 has an edp connection to the screen, the harder part would be getting access to the keyboard and mouse through there.

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Is it a direct connection? I assumed there would be some sort of mux involved.

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There is probably a mux but it has not been confirmed. However a connection through a mux is pretty much a direct connection if the mux is switched to that input.