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Motherboards Crazy Asus Concept motherboard

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by Bloody_Pete, 18 Jun 2012.

  1. Bloody_Pete

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  2. Jaybles

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    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?
     
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    Dammit, didn't read, these CPC one said 680's I think :)

    and size/cooling I suppose...
     
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    It's just stupid - Gpu's are the component that goes out of date the fastest - why would you have it built in?
     
  5. Jaybles

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    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.
     
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    I was thinking for watercooling...
     
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    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.
     
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    ASUS said it's 7970Ms. Also, as MXMs, I believe they'd be replaceable.
     
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    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.
     
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    Ahh of course. Full motherboard waterblocks anyone?
     
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    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.
     
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    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.
     
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    cpc latest mag says its duel 680s
     
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    The only place I could see it being advantageous would be for some ultra powerful all in one type of pc.
     
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    Let's cover the whole board in epoxy and put an APPLE logo on it.
     
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    It's got the wrong kind of HDD connectors for that... :p
     
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    ASUS said they were '28nm PCIe Gen 3 GPUs', no more. ;)

    Everything else is speculation. :D
     
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    Thanks for clearing that up Bindi...


    NOT!

    :p
     
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    :D

    It's interesting to see how media interpret it when no one really knows. hehe
     

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