ASUS' new concept board: Immensity!
"We've obtained some images of ASUS' new Immensity concept board, which appears to have a Radeon HD 5770 onboard!"
Published: 8th June 2010 | Source: ASUS |
Pics of ASUS' new concept board: Immensity!
We're proud to bring you some hot news here at OC3D. We have just obtained some pics of ASUS' latest concept board, Immensity.
As you can see, this board has some monster cooling going on. ASUS are refusing to say what's underneath the heatsinks, although our sources tell us that they're hiding a Lucid Hydra, and an ATI Radeon HD 5770 GPU.
This could shape up to be one behemoth of a board if ASUS decide to put it into production, with the Radeon 5770 blowing any and all previous intergrated graphics solutions out of the water.
The Lucid Hydra would be a smart inclusion too, enabling the onboard HD5770 to remain useful even with an upgraded GPU in one (or both) of the PCI-Express slots.
We'll post more info if and when we get it. Just remember folks, you saw it here first on OC3D!
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unless this is a hybrid motherboard but i think they have to be nforce for that.
the lucid chip is there so you can run ither Xfire or SLi
very much!
the 5770 is onboard graphics so it gets disabled when a PCI-E card is present.
unless this is a hybrid motherboard but i think they have to be nforce for that.
the lucid chip is there so you can run ither Xfire or SLi
Hybrid has been done by both ATI and Nvidia. With Nvidia it was complete fail in the face. IIRC they stopped supporting it after about ten minutes.
ATI were far more successful with theirs, allowing you to use any GPU of the same family (2 series for example, or 4 series depending on what was onboard) and then run with it. Basically the same thing Nvidia were trying to do yet couldn't get working properly.
Either though are fool's gold and completely not worth bothering with. In those instances why would you want a slow GPU dragging you down?
Sure, the 5770 is a fantastic little mid level card but sadly that is where it ends. What if you were fitting high end cards? as you say you would disable it. Yet, why would you pay all that money for a board with something on that you are paying for that you are going to disable?
It's a very confusing strategy from Asus tbh. Unless of course this board is priced at a point where you can't resist. It does mean that AMD are a ways to go with Fusion though (see I5 and the integrated CPU GPU thingermebub).
Yup, I was running SLI with a 32mb 3Dlabs and two Voodoo 2s :)
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