ASUS had a fairly big showing here at
Computex, and while mobile computing was obviously the highlight of the show, the desktop gamers were thrown a bone with this gem. Dubbed Immensity, this concept X58 mainboard has plenty of room for an ultra-speedy
Core i7 processor, but what makes this one unique is the built-in GPU. Nah, it's not some lame-o integrated chip that chokes up when playing back 480p versions of last night's
Glee -- it's a full-fledged
ATI Radeon HD 5770. Thankfully for you, that's not where the fun ends. There's also an
integrated Lucid Hydra chip fused onto the PCB, which means that you're free to slap another pair of PCIe-based GPUs in and get a three-way CrossFireX setup going. Representatives at the booth were fairly confident that the concept would turn commercial by the end of this year (or early 2011 at worst), though they're still trying to hammer down what exactly the final GPU will be. We're sure there's a good bit of "dealing with thermals" going on in the labs, but here's hoping ASUS really can pull this off and change the way we think about IGPs. Have a look at the monster below, and try your best to not get those hopes
too high.
posted June 5th 2010 12:01PM
@inscythe
of course assuming that Asus is gonna try to put an even higher end GPU there, it got to have its own HSF....
If something is wrong with either motherboard or GPU you´re fuk'ed..Double fuk'ed !
I really hope someone at asus has a prototype like this with a card that has hdmi 1.4 with 3d support.
Just slap 3d somewhere on the box and throw in a pair of glasses and watch the money roll in.
But can it run Crysis?
Will the power requirements be somewhat less because the GPU is integrated with the mobo?
Okay, that is pretty cool. If you're gonna put in an integrated GPU, might as well make it not suck.
Screw you, Intel with your wimpy integrated crap. Hello, ATI with your super-speedy awesome graphics!
Does the on-board GPU have its own RAM or is it sharing system RAM.
Shared memory is one of the biggest problems with on-board GPUs
This would be beautiful for Hybrid Crossfire.
I'm already turned on....