ASUS' new concept board: Immensity!

[johndprob]

um guys? its lucid, you could use the 5770 with any other card, which would be sweet, put 2 5850's or a 5870 and a gtx 480 any combo you like and theres the 5770, i dont see anything wrong with this, and this would be sweet to water cool

 

[AMDFTW]

the 5770 is onboard graphics so it gets disabled when a PCI-E card is present.

unless this is a hybrid motherboard but i think they have to be nforce for that.

the lucid chip is there so you can run ither Xfire or SLi

 

[johndprob]

alot the stuff ive been reading is that if they do implement this board the onboard graphics card will have 2 modes, one being fully discrete the other allowing it to act as an onboard depending on how you configure it on the bios

 

[kandymenla]

I have used it before,it is very easy to use and it give me a lot of help,thank you

very much!

 

[Diablo]

The Lucid isn't great though from what I've seen, so unless you put a pair of 5770s together, I'm not convinced

 

[sli_guy]

when will it be released?

 

[alienware]

the 5770 is onboard graphics so it gets disabled when a PCI-E card is present.

unless this is a hybrid motherboard but i think they have to be nforce for that.

the lucid chip is there so you can run ither Xfire or SLi

Hybrid has been done by both ATI and Nvidia. With Nvidia it was complete fail in the face. IIRC they stopped supporting it after about ten minutes.

ATI were far more successful with theirs, allowing you to use any GPU of the same family (2 series for example, or 4 series depending on what was onboard) and then run with it. Basically the same thing Nvidia were trying to do yet couldn't get working properly.

Either though are fool's gold and completely not worth bothering with. In those instances why would you want a slow GPU dragging you down?

Sure, the 5770 is a fantastic little mid level card but sadly that is where it ends. What if you were fitting high end cards? as you say you would disable it. Yet, why would you pay all that money for a board with something on that you are paying for that you are going to disable?

It's a very confusing strategy from Asus tbh. Unless of course this board is priced at a point where you can't resist. It does mean that AMD are a ways to go with Fusion though (see I5 and the integrated CPU GPU thingermebub).

 

[alienware]

Actually I totally forgot. Crossfire works as a family thing (IE any 5xxx with any other 5xxx) where as SLI is completely specific. The main drawback to SLI is the fact it's an old technology that they got from the bargain bin when Voodoo went tits up.

Yup, I was running SLI with a 32mb 3Dlabs and two Voodoo 2s