Muropaketti: Asus "HD3850 X3" revealed

[Rusin]

nothing

 

[MarcVenice]

3 3850 gpu's ? why not 3 3870 gpu's ?

Here's a working link:

http://www.nordichardware.com/news,7543.html

 

[lloydxd]

you beat me to it.

 

[Tempered81]

wow, 12 gpus on a foxconn F1 would be sweetness.

 

[JackBurton]

Ok, this is getting BEYOND ridiculous!

 

[tommo123]

why? dont the reviews show that 3 gpu's are the sweet spots? getting 2 of these may be pointless (till the drivers improve anyway).

only thing i dont like is the need for seperate cooling

 

[zagood]

Interesting how they combined the cooling for each chip into one block that's watercooled...pretty inventive. Wonder what the power requirements are going to be.

-z

 

[IL2SturmovikPilot]

Just read it here a few minutes ago :Q

http://www.techpowerup.com/560...Three_RV670_Chips.html

 

[covert24]

so its a 3850 X2 + 1? um... wow...

 

[dennilfloss]

I got wood.

 

[ronnn]

Originally posted by: JackBurton
Ok, this is getting BEYOND ridiculous!

:laugh:

 

[Nathelion]

Seriously.... who would buy this thing?

 

[tommo123]

i would - if they could sort out an air cooler. assuming it's not crippled in some way

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

They won't be satisfied until their's a GPU for each pixel

 

[TC91]

lets just hope they dont stick crappy ass gddr2/ddr2 memory on it. who knows, it might be a 3GB card!!!

 

[Sylvanas]

Lol....I wonder if this will ever get to market, it looks like something Asus stuck together in a workshop.

 

[myocardia]

As usual, I'd prefer to buy one fast GPU, than 3 bottom of the line GPU's, whether they're mounted on one card or not.

 

[qliveur]

10 bucks says that it still performs like crap in Crysis.

 

[Lonyo]

I'm surprised it took this long to return to multi-GPU cards.
It's not like we haven't been there before. Just look at 3dfx and ATi in the past.

CPU's stopped building faster single cores and went to multiples, but Intel are doing the same as both Nvidia AND ATi, they are putting multiple dies on one chip and hooking them together to increase the number of cores, and slowly making bigger single dies over time, while AMD are making single larger dies instead of sticking 2 smaller ones together.
Graphics people are just heading the way of Intel and putting smaller chips together on the same card, a bit like Intel. More cost efficient in some ways, even if the end user doesn't like it so much.

Faster single GPU's will come eventually, but there isn't really a huge rush or need for them right now when they can just put 2 together.

 

[covert24]

Originally posted by: TC91
who knows, it might be a 3GB card!!!

OMGZORz!11!!111! I must has oneZ...

maybe then it could show an even less reason to keep adding on more frggin memory..

 

[recoiledsnake]

Aren't these mobile GPUs? I remember reading that somewhere.