ASUS ROG Xpander enables 4-way SLI on Rampage III Extreme

[Andrea deluxe]

useless for normal people(99.9%)

good for bencher without a case.....

[jasonelmore]

yeah no point in showing it off if nobody can get it. A lot of companies could post up their prototypes and concept designs just to get some good press. Hope Asus makes this available to the public.

[sxs112]

SOURCE:http://www.hardwareluxx.de/index.php...g-xpander.html

[massman]

ROG Dude?

[AndreYang]

ROG Dude?

it's old name.

[autobot]

They call it the "ROG DUDE" because when you first see it your like, "Dude, wtf is that?"

[TJ TRICHEESE]

so this can do what which the P6T7 cant?

[crash5s]

so this can do what which the P6T7 cant?

Comes in red and has blinking light on base mobo

[SamHughe]

ROG DUDE?!? Oh this keeps getting better and better.

[[XC] gomeler]

I want one just because it'll look cool as hell running 4 480s on LN2 with this thing Definitely a gigantic plastic bandaid.

[lkiller123]

What's that for?

[zanzabar]

What's that for?

i would guess that it was designed for extra support, or for a test card

[Musho]

What's that for?

Looks like there are 3 PCI-E slots on the backside of the daughterboard, with 2 of them having the actual pins inserted which go into the PCI-E slots on the motherboard. You can probably remove those pins and move them to that black slot, so it fits on a different motherboard.

[nateman_doo]

Good God. This is the mother of all band aid solutions. Seriously, this isn't a "PCI-Express daughter card", it's a whole darn board that will likely carry the price of a brand new motherboard.


ASUS: We have the highest-end X58 motherboard with every feature you can think of!

Customer: But EVGA has 4-way SLI!

ASUS: Uh oh. *runs to parts bin and cobbles something together*

ASUS: Now we have 4-way SLI!!!**


**ASUS Disclaimer: But it won't allow you to actually INSTALL the 4 graphics cards inside a case.

ok, that is just HILARIOUS!!

[sxs112]

NF200 why not on R3E

MORE：http://www.xfastest.com/viewthread.p...extra=page%3D1

[zanzabar]

best slide ever

[TJ TRICHEESE]

whats funny about that ^^ is that the UD9 costs about twice as much as the R3E and the R3E is @ X8 and UD9 is @ x16 but still the R3E wins

[zanzabar]

the id9 isnt really 16x is 16 with 2x nf200

[Sn0wm@n]

How much that riser will cost?

Well compared to this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813128446
$2700 total with 4X GTX 480s ......Wonder how much Gigabyte's Stock @ Taiwan S Exchange, if it listed

cheaper method


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...r+card&x=0&y=0 riser cards .... and they cost less then that mobo

[zanzabar]

those arnt 8x or 16x pci-e

[Leeghoofd]

NF200 is a little slower; don't think the Risers will help to get you 4X 480... That solution would be just too simple; there's more to that Snow...

Nice to see Xfastest and hardwareluxx violate NDA again :p I ever wonder why we sign them papers anyway sigh...

The solution is good (if it retails at the price we heard) But we discussed a bit about it's cooling, possibility to use on other boards/brands,... and why not a REX III with NF200 onboard ?

[eternal_fantasy]

Nice to see Xfastest and hardwareluxx violate NDA again :p I ever wonder why we sign them papers anyway sigh...

Why so bothered? People that signs NDAs normally want to tell the world what they know, but are bounded by the NDA. Now someone else does that for you, why aren't you happy for the rest of us that got the news earlier then we otherwise would?

Oh and they let you sign the paper to make you feel warm and fuzzy inside knowing you guys are a special bunch.

[Blacky]

best slide ever

best thing is that RE3 got even cheaper! is around $359 now !

[an0nym0us]

This is so lame.

[Sn0wm@n]

those arnt 8x or 16x pci-e

yeah i know .. but it was a link to hightlight the cheaper method to do it and x8 or x16 exist ... yet newegg dont sell them ...