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PostPosted: Wed, 13th Jun 2012 13:05    Post subject: Weird new ASUS motherboard
Asus Zeus:

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The Zeus is part LGA 2011 motherboard and part dual-graphics behemoth, with a lashing of sexy heatsinks on the side. The board has the same tri-chip ASUS DIGI+ VRM Power hardware as the P9X79 Series, and it can handle up to 128GB of DDR3 over its 8 DIMM slots.

The two 28nm PCIe Gen-3 GPUs (sorry for being unspecific) are actually soldered to the motherboard PCB itself, with their GDDR5 wrapped around them and the four PCIe power connectors (2x 8-pin, 2x 6-pin) laid along the bottom. Since they expand the whole width of the PCB, the X79 PCH has been moved above, just under the CPU socket.

All this hardware is then put under silver and gold (color, not metal) anodized heatsinks. There’s no PCI-Express expansion slots, but who cares when you could build the worlds only, low profile, high performance multi-GPU system!










Aesthetically it looks interesting IMO


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PostPosted: Wed, 13th Jun 2012 13:46    Post subject:
So what are the mounted GPUs then?
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PostPosted: Wed, 13th Jun 2012 13:51    Post subject:
um, okey
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PostPosted: Wed, 13th Jun 2012 14:18    Post subject:
sabin1981 wrote:
So what are the mounted GPUs then?


Rumours:

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To begin with, ASUS is likely using a pair of "Southern Islands" family discrete mobile GPUs, not desktop ones. Further, it's likely that the GPUs are 28 nm "Pitcairn" based. The two GPUs are installed in CrossFire configuration.


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ASUS didnt mention which GPU they are using but since they are stating them as PCI Express 3.0 complaint GPUs which obviously means that these are from AMD because NVIDIA’s latest GPUs don’t recognize X79 as PCI Express 3.0 complaint. For display connectivity, ASUS ZEUS has mini-DP, standard DP, HDMI and Thunderbolt.

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