I actually detest designs like this. Reminds me of a few manufacturers years ago who tried pushing all in one PC's on the market. The PC's were not expandable because the graphics and sound were integrated and connectivity removed. Removing PCIe slots on a motherboard goes against what the PC is all about. It is something you would expect more from apple. I hope this turkey fails.
Aesthetically it looks really bad, choice of colour scheme is appalling. What on earth were they thinking..
Why dual GPU? surely a single GPU like a full fat 680 would be far better. Also anybody remember Asus motherboard with built in ram
Because dual 680m's could offer greater performance than a single 680. "As the top-tier offering in the mobile Kepler lineup, it packs a 720MHz engine clock, 1,344 CUDA cores and a 256-bit memory bus powering up to 4GB of GDDR5 RAM. "
Non-removable parts means replacement of the entire unit if one component fails. I know we already do this with motherboards, but graphics chips are probably a step too far.
How about we go a different route and create the first modular motherboard where different parts of mobo can be changed or upgraded My asus P8Z68-V GEN3 has a useless LAN port from intel that causes the connection to drop repeatedly and the LAN even drops from the hardware list eventually until you restart the PC. Even if you plug in a PCIe LAN card and use that, you will still get the dropped connections until you disable the onboard Intel LAN. No bios updates or LAN driver updates correct the issue. Perhaps a board design fault. A modular mobo where u can unplug the onboard LAN module for example.
Theres probably a reason why it's just a concept . Every time I read the word integrated I immediately lose interest lol.
*cough* Playstation 3 *cough* Xbox 360 *cough* A pair of 7950's or 7970's in a package like this is more than adequate for the average person, throughout the expected average lifetime of a "Family" PC. But it gives the benefit of a small form-factor platform with a small physical foot print. The very fact that it's thin and wafer shaped means it could live behind your LCD monitor via a VESA mount or similar. It's also no different from "all in one" PC's either. So I'm not sure what the fuss is about. It's a proof of concept, nothing more- and given that nobody else out there has the balls or imagination of Asus- we should be applauding them for throwing out crazy ideas like this, and their MARS cards for the enthusiasts to suck up.
I'd rather see a range of hybrid air/liquid cooled mobos and GPU's... a 680 air cooled but comes with g1/4 fittings for liquid cooling rather than trying to make a PC into a console.
Lol What is wrong with black and gold? I thought everyone loved black PCBs, thus explaining the proliferation of them.
ASUS said PCI-E gen 3.0, which would mean AMD, as nVidia won't certify Intel's PCI-E 3.0 as 3.0, but rather as an advanced subset of 2.0. I'm paying attention here.
I would add that the board has 1 x 8-pin and 1 x 6pin power for the GPUs. The only current generation to need that much power at stock (according to refernce specs) is the 7970, with some custom 680's using the same power inputs. So I would think it most likely that the board will have 2 x 7970 onboard. I consider it highly unlikely that the board would have that much power for even a pair of 7950.
I like integration. I like this concept. I hope it's using M versions of the GPUs, instead of full ones. I wouldn't mind a series of motherboards packing only high powered mobile GPUs in them. It's an interesting concept, as mobile GPUs offer excellent performance for their power and heat profiles. I certainly wouldn't mind a micro-ATX motherboard that cut out a couple features to hold a 7970m or 680m, that would work great for a LAN machine or somesuch.
I'd be interested in something like this if they cut down the specs and made it some kind of AIO HTPC board. M-ATX Form Factor would be great for this.
Perhaps. but Llano isn't as crazy powerful as this solution. I'd love to see some form of Lucid-style switching, though. Embed a high-end mobile GPU on the board, and have a 16X port on the board that's disabled while it's active. Means you can still upgrade, but the fallback is still pretty awesome. Would also future-proof the board a bit, as you'd wind up just sticking a new GPU in, rather than needing a whole new motherboard to play with.
Maybe an AIO GPPC(General Purpose PC) would be a better way to put it. Something that can game at 1920x1080 with high settings, but with less space/heat/power usage.
