I saw this briefly in CPC, and a bit of googling grabbed more information. A concept 2011 motherboard with dual 680's built in! I personally think this is actually one of Asus's better ideas! Thoughts? http://www.techpowerup.com/167172/A...A2011-Motherboard-with-Dual-GPU-Graphics.html
Where does it say dual 680s? All I can see is speculation about Radeon 7970 and 7870. Also what is the benefit over PCI-E slot GPUs?
It's just stupid - Gpu's are the component that goes out of date the fastest - why would you have it built in?
Ahh OK. The size thing I get. (Could make a really powerful console) But cooling? Putting 2 high end graphics chips on a board with only that heatsink to deal with cooling doesn't seem to me like the best idea.
I suspect it's two 680M's, but that's still a good idea in concept, it does show that, if they try hard enough, you can make the mother of all-in-one systems.
Looking closely at the board; unless the whole bottom section is removable; those don't look like MXM gpus, not unless the GPU only is on MXM, while the memory stays on board, which would be blatantly pointless, as part of GPU upgrades are wider and faster Memory buses that you wouldn't be able to use.
I can think of some great mods I could do with that. If ASUS wants to give me one, I'll even postpone my retirement for it.
I can't really see how it woulld have any advantages over a regular dual GPU setup and independant motherboard. I'm not overly keen on the colour scheme either, though I will admit the whole concept is interesting.
The only place I could see it being advantageous would be for some ultra powerful all in one type of pc.
http://vr-zone.com/articles/asus-zeus-combines-x79-hedt-with-dual-gpu/16152.html 7970. We've been talking about it at XS for a while now. Actually, dipping the thing in epoxy WAS what I wanted to do with it-and then submerge it in water as a fishtank heater (no, really. It's completely possible.)