ASUS EAH3850 Trinity crams three Radeon GPUs onto one card
By Paul Miller 
posted Mar 25th 2008 11:40AM
posted Mar 25th 2008 11:40AM
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WOW! Some serious hardware there. Who wants to bet it'll melt your rig?
this thing is so big and bulky, when I first looked at it, I thought it was a network server in a clean room.
it's got a water block, so it shouldn't...
Then again... 3 rv670... uhh... I retract my previous statement.
but can it run Crysis?
guaranteed to get you 10 fps....
What exactly do I need to run Crysis in highest detail?
...on a 27 inch LCD monitor.
errr, something that hasn't been manufactured yet.
Will it work with my mac?
nothing works with mac.
Not even viruses.
LMFAO @ Tallest Skil
Apple doesn't believe in being up-to-date with graphic cards.
Anton: that is true, they released the 2008 Mac Pros with Geforce 8800s and have done nothing since january when released to make it work with all previous mac pros. Its been about 2 years since the mac pro was relased, and, idiotically, jobs called it the most expandable mac ever. Since that time, there have been NO upgrades available in terms of graphics, the best card that will run on it is the ATI X1900 XT, which is a 2 year old card anyway. Whats worse, and more embarrassing is that the 2008 mac pro ships with an 8800, which is also nearing its end of life, as the 9800 GT comes out soon. With that said, even an 8800 GT is a *LATE* upgrade.
This is a slap in the face to all people that bought a mac pro. Piss poor management by apple on getting things done and fraudulant advertising by steve jobs; most expandable mac ever? Bullshit.
"This is a slap in the face to all people that bought a mac pro. Piss poor management by apple on getting things done and fraudulant advertising by steve jobs; most expandable mac ever? Bullshit"
technically... he didn't... the most expandable mac is not saying very much
Computers that don't have games don't need high-end graphics cards.
Of course the moment you install this your box will overheat while using liquid nitrogen coolant >__>.
...Okay, it's probably not that bad. That card is HUGE, though. I don't think I want to know what kind of power consumption it requires. Or the price. I kinda liked the feeling of money in my wallet.
you got my mind workin' overtime with potential metaphors there. =D
oh, you. XD
hey at least i'm tasteful
grrrr it killed my emoticon!
ohhhhh it had a less than symbol i forgot ok let's retry it {;-)
I wonder what the power requirements are for that beast, it might need its own power supply.
looks big enough to have it's own power supply on board =P
There's a reason they picked 3850's and not 3870's obviously.
Looks like 3 laptop video cards on a pcix 'host' if you will. The more I look at those slots it reminds me of the MXM slots.
http://www.notebookcheck.net/typo3temp/pics/2ef559b2a7.jpg is a picture of an MXM card.
Wow, not only did you nail that one, but it also leads me to believe the cards would be upgradeable.
That looks like what it is, except you meant to type PCI-e, and not PCI-X. You gotta remember PCI-X is what Apple used in the G5 towers and some old server boards from before PCI-e used. Though I wonder how many lanes they are able to route to each card. In theory 6-5-5. or 8-4-4 should be possible, but maybe they only went with 4-4-4 or 5-5-5.
Can't wait for them to make a board with crossfireX support and four (full) x16 slots. Current boards may have 4 slots, but usually you are limited to 40 lanes max on the board (sometimes less).
I can actually feel the heat from that thing standing here in New England.
And I know it's not the sun. We haven't felt the heat from that since last August.
Feel any heat in March?
http://www.bustedtees.com/shirt/18-1/
@gfar:
18-1 > 14-6
@gfar:
1. The Patriots went 18-0 before losing in the Super Bowl.
2. I was over it in about 24 hours.
3. I'm looking forward to next year.
lol awesome link
Will they support 4 of these cards on a rig? That might be able to play Crysis in full detail @60fps
currently: no.
You'd need a board with enough PCI-e lanes. And I believe the current drivers are limited to either 3 or 4 GPUs. Also you are taking a performance hit for each additional chip you stuff on the card. Maybe someday we will get crossfireX motherboards with four (full) x16 slots.
on another note looks like SLi will be dead, long live Crossfire
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/25/1435259&from=rss
Rank 4 FACEMELT
To whom it may concern,
It probably will play Doom, so don't ask!
tom~
Can it play Doom ?
probably.
I understand how you can run four monitor's from three GPU's, but how do you run one monitor from four GPU's on a three GPU card?
It is just parallel processing - sharing workload
I understand they share the work load, but how can 4 GPU's share a workload on a card with only 3 GPU's?
"If your box doesn't implode in incredulity, that means you can power four monitors with the three GPUs, or power a single monitor with all four at once for some seriously serious World of Warcraft,"
English language is always up for interpretation.
Power 4 monitors with 3 GPU's. Or Power 1 Monitor with all '4' Monitors...
it's tooo long. it's gonna stick out of the back of your case
initial, that's what she said followed by what I said.
it's like you were there!
-jp
If if has 3 GPUs, how do all 4 power a single monitor?
I can't wait to try Folding@Home on a beast like this!
Wow...no others words needed...just wow...
Will it blend?
Hahaha! Watch out for trolls, they hate the blend references.
OK.... LOL. Thanks! :) I think its blendability is worth discussion...
So we've gone from cramming as many graphics cards on to a single motherboard as possible, to cramming as many GPUs onto a single graphics card as possible.
I guess that's miniaturisation in practice.
Once again.. this would be great for medical use. We run 4 monitors at high resolution for Radiology PACS use. Would be nice to only use one pci-e slot.
yeah but it also takes up 2x 5.25" bays for the water cooling device.
I find this amusing as I am using the PACS system. Right now.
As far as I can tell though a standard, sub-$200 card runs the images smoothly on a dual monitor setup.
Well at least their GPU solutions seem better as "we should just glue two cards together" nvidia one. The sockets could actually save a lot of space.
This is just starting to get ridiculous now.
4 times 3850, I wonder how many blu-ray/HDTV streams it can do at the same time.
Only 3 GPUs? The Voodoo 5 6000 laughs at this card.
Oh my God, it's full of stars...
test
MY GOD it is 3 pci-e notebook video cord all in 1