ASUS has released images of their Marine Cool concept motherboard which promises increased stability over overclocking prowess.
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ASUS Marine Cool Motherboard
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Dear mother of god that thing's a beast. Cooling looks very high though, so possibly enthusiast cooling only (water at least). I'm suprised the stock cooling doesn't support water.
EDIT: relooking at the pictures... Where the hell have the dimm slots gone? Just behind the IO plate? I also don't get the part of onboard memory... In case the integrated memory goes bad. Isn't that quite the same?
Oh, price? 500 pounds or something
EDIT: relooking at the pictures... Where the hell have the dimm slots gone? Just behind the IO plate? I also don't get the part of onboard memory... In case the integrated memory goes bad. Isn't that quite the same?
Oh, price? 500 pounds or something
I had a google, didnt know what they were myself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SO-DIMM
Think half height sdram
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SO-DIMM
Think half height sdram
At keast they are actualy designing them to look nice now, although giga byte boards still look like puke with all the colours.
Bout time they started to make them pretty imho - more to mod
Bout time they started to make them pretty imho - more to mod
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This has to be for an oem specific purpose.
I was kinda wondering if those pci slots are in the right place.
Think as far as the memory goes, they could be unlinking it which would make the type and vendor pretty irrelevant. Not for those who want the tiny benefits to be had by bending ur memory alone.
Best I could think of was laptop ddr2..
Dunno, labs come up with some strange things sometimes. Prototypes may just have that memory for practical purposes ??
I was kinda wondering if those pci slots are in the right place.
Think as far as the memory goes, they could be unlinking it which would make the type and vendor pretty irrelevant. Not for those who want the tiny benefits to be had by bending ur memory alone.
Best I could think of was laptop ddr2..
Dunno, labs come up with some strange things sometimes. Prototypes may just have that memory for practical purposes ??
From what I can see, they have made it different colours to the norm, added dune buggy style heatpipes or whatever that is at the rear (why...?) and probably added an extra few quid on in the process. A ceramic backplate...? What was wrong with metal, I hardly think ceramic is a good idea, too expensive too, it is not like our motherboards will be re-entering the earths atmo any time soon that we need something like that!
How many of you have been overclocking when there is a power cut, and your initial thought is "Damn, I nearly had 4Ghz as well", rather than "crap, now I can't see anything, there is a very expensive PC on a desk next to me and I am probably going to break it by tripping on the cat below me and falling" etc.
Nice idea, but not groundbreaking
How many of you have been overclocking when there is a power cut, and your initial thought is "Damn, I nearly had 4Ghz as well", rather than "crap, now I can't see anything, there is a very expensive PC on a desk next to me and I am probably going to break it by tripping on the cat below me and falling" etc.
Nice idea, but not groundbreaking
I think people care getting carried away with trying to point out the "bad" bits. If it used SO-DIMM's as displayed, what's to say that it's not utilising a new technology instead of the current one?
Remember it's a concept product of "look what we can do" as Daza said...personally, I think it's bloody awsesome what these engineers are starting to develop for motherboards....look what they were like 5 years ago!
Remember it's a concept product of "look what we can do" as Daza said...personally, I think it's bloody awsesome what these engineers are starting to develop for motherboards....look what they were like 5 years ago!
Interesting board deffo...
Whats the chip above the south bridge?
Been comparing it to my P5k premium, lots of stuff in the same place but some new and interesting chips knocking about.
So-dimms are an interesting addition yes.
As its a prototype you would have thought it would be on something newer than skt 775
The cpu cooler would suit WC'ing , be a lot of air coolers wouldnt fit with the size of the NB block.
I myself like it. Notice the PCI slot area ... something just doesnt look right there, but cant put my finger on it.
Massive cluster of capicitors, there only looks to be 2 fan headers too? 1 cpu one chassis fan.
Very interesting board and as mentioned no puke inducing colours like giga's ram slots choice etc...
Whats the chip above the south bridge?
Been comparing it to my P5k premium, lots of stuff in the same place but some new and interesting chips knocking about.
So-dimms are an interesting addition yes.
As its a prototype you would have thought it would be on something newer than skt 775
The cpu cooler would suit WC'ing , be a lot of air coolers wouldnt fit with the size of the NB block.
I myself like it. Notice the PCI slot area ... something just doesnt look right there, but cant put my finger on it.
Massive cluster of capicitors, there only looks to be 2 fan headers too? 1 cpu one chassis fan.
Very interesting board and as mentioned no puke inducing colours like giga's ram slots choice etc...
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