ASUS P8P67 WS Revolution: 4-Way multi-GPU and 2oz PCB

[matose]

It's seems like ASUS is preparing a board with 4-way multi-GPU suport and 2oz PCB.

ASUS P8P67 WS Revolution – First official informations | lab501 | Translate

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matose

[dinos22]

One of the strengths that differentiate the new model series WS normal P8P67 is effective over 92% of the power stage. This is possible because the UPR and DIGI + VRM we talked about but also through a technology called True 2oz PCB. Not to be nasty and say they look forward to other technologies of the series 'True': True On / Off Charge eg

[Monstru]

Yeap, I know, True ON/OFF Charge and True Unlocked Power are next

[Texpat]

Lots of new tech we can look forward to from them: True DualBIOS, True Ultra Durable 3, True Hotkey OC, True Japanese solid caps (this should be an interesting one because you don't get any truer than Japanese made caps), True smart 6, etc... Truly ridiculous!

[zalbard]

Is it ATX? or E-ATX?

[Bromptoners]

What's the sense behind for that "True" for both Asus and Asrock? Do they vowed their saying the "true" nothing but the "true" ?

[lowfat]

The board itself simple looks fantastic. I don't like the fact that it has an NF200 on it, but it still may be my next board.

[Monstru]

Is it ATX? or E-ATX?

It is larger then ATX for sure, but I do not think it is standard E-ATX. Anyway, true jokes aside, the board is pretty cool

[crash5s]

The board itself simple looks fantastic. I don't like the fact that it has an NF200 on it, but it still may be my next board.

nf200 can go die in a fire, horrible pile of junk.

[~CS~]

Looks ATX to me,it also looks really nice,and a lot like those MSI boards we've seen earlier.

[Mats]

Is it ATX? or E-ATX?

ATX

Seven slots, and there's technically no room for more slots, just like a regular ATX.
EATX is usually 264 - 266 mm deep, and also have seven slots, but it's quite common that people get it mixed up.

You can also see the mounting holes in the front of the board, they're in the corner.
Compare with this, it got holes in the front corners, but those are not mounting holes, the mounting holes are almost 1" in.

[SamHughe]

It's seems like ASUS is preparing a board with 4-way multi-GPU suport and 2oz PCB.
matose

The picture says 3-way SLI/CF

[bamtan2]

nf200 can go die in a fire, horrible pile of junk.

Can someone tell me how ASUS is supposed to get more PCI-E lanes and SLI support without NF200?

[Death^Dread]

Lots of new tech we can look forward to from them: True DualBIOS, True Ultra Durable 3, True Hotkey OC, True Japanese solid caps (this should be an interesting one because you don't get any truer than Japanese made caps), True smart 6, etc... Truly ridiculous!

And if ASUS denies it, we just say "The truth hurts..."

[sin0822]

So asus is using 2oz copper now? Someone over at OCN said they have been for a while, I stated if they are going to use it why not talk about it. Looks like now they are using it. yea the nf200 might not be the best add on chip, but for people with SLI setups there would really be no other way with only 8 x 5GT/s native lanes of PCI-E as well as the USB3 and marvell sata6g bandwidth added. BTW right now lanes run at 2.5GT/s so there are 16x lanes running 2.5GT/s.

[RPGWiZaRD]

I wonder if ASUS needs to pay any licensing fee to Gigabyte for using 2oz copper PCB, you know in this day every1 licenses everything... anyway you'd easily think they could like use slightly thicker layer and get away with it like that probably.

[matose]

The picture says 3-way SLI/CF

It's 3-way SLI and 4-way CFX. It has 4 PCI-Express slots that can work 8x / 8x / 8x / 8x when all of them are filled

[zalbard]

Just noticed, 16+2 digital power phase! Damn, that's a lot!

[saaya]

the heatsink doesnt look bad... the fins are a bit crammed next to each other but it looks like an actually well working heatsink, a novelty in mainboard design!
i like the dual intel gbe lan, last i checked it was faster than other NIC chips, so thats cool... dual isnt really necessary but... ah well...

what is tpu? techpowerup? 0_o

and why does it only mention 3sli if it has 4 pciE slots? are you sure it supports quad sli and quad xfire? sounds to me like one of those slots is going through the chipset, which would suck for quad vga operation...

the board has too many white parts to look cool imo... but it doesnt look bad...

and yeah, the pwm sounds sick... do i smell shamino? *sniff sniff*

[Oliverda]

Can someone tell me how ASUS is supposed to get more PCI-E lanes and SLI support without NF200?

Lucid Hydra 200, maybe?

It only has a 4.5W TDP.

Just noticed, 16+2 digital power phase! Damn, that's a lot!

I hope that it's a real 16+2 phase and not 6 phase with 3 chokes-per-phase.

[Monstru]

And you think Hydra performs better?

[Oliverda]

And you think Hydra performs better?

Maybe you did not understand me. Hydra 200 can work as a simple PCIe switch/bridge (~distributor) without any additional software. So no N-Mode, A-Mode, X-Mode or any other useless thing.

[PatRaceTin]

high price also

[matose]

and why does it only mention 3sli if it has 4 pciE slots? are you sure it supports quad sli and quad xfire?

3-way SLI and 4-way CFX works even without any PCIe bridge, but for 4-way SLI you need two NF200 bridges. ASUS used one NF200 on the WS because the Sandy Bridge CPU doesn't have native 3 GPU support, just 1 x 16x or 2 x 8x

Also, Lucid Hydra 200 is more expensive than the NF200 from what I know...

[crash5s]

Can someone tell me how ASUS is supposed to get more PCI-E lanes and SLI support without NF200?

Lucid

Also, why do you "need" SLI, it's crap. And for those of us that don't want to deal with the issues the NF200 is just extra power consumption and heat.

I won't buy a board with a force 200 on it