Asus plans EAH3850 Trinity with 3 GPUs

[awdrifter]

The design looks really bad. They should design it like the 3870X2, make all threee cores on a single PCB, then it can be air cool and it'll be cheaper to make.

[Power5]

Wow, I didn't know the 9770 could go 4.6ghz on air.

[squilliam]

Wow, I didn't know the 9770 could go 4.6ghz on air.

lol


I think they should just release the main Crossfire card w/out the 3850s.
Sell it for $50, and then just sell laptop cards for super cheap.

I still think this won't be cheap.

[DeathReborn]

I think the design is superb. They have taken mobile cards and put them right on a mainboard. This will save many $ on development and production.

nV should have thought of that, dont they have mobile versions too like this?

8800M GTX is only 96 shaders though, but that's probably enough to compete with the 3850.

[Monkeywoman]

source; http://www.nordichardware.com/news,7559.html

Kinc has served us with some benchmarks with the card, using an air cooled system and the card overclocked to the maximum setting in Catalyst Control Center, 769/1053MHz, he managed to achieve some quite impressive scores. The results in 3DMark 03 has to be one of the highest single card scores we've seen, if not the highest.

He used a system based on the ASUS Rampage Formula X48 with an Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770 overclocked to 4.6 GHz (11x419).

pic1 (http://www.nordichardware.com/image3.php?id=4798)
pic2 (http://www.nordichardware.com/image3.php?id=4799)

[LucrativeFuture]

This card is in a unique position. It looks to be geared toward enthusiasts (although its performance probably will be surpassed by 2*3870, 3870 X2, 9800GX2). However, with this poor water cooling design, what enthusiast would want to put this in their loop? It is also ugly beyond belief. Not selling.

[DMH]

This card is in a unique position. It looks to be geared toward enthusiasts (although its performance probably will be surpassed by 2*3870, 3870 X2, 9800GX2). However, with this poor water cooling design, what enthusiast would want to put this in their loop? It is also ugly beyond belief. Not selling.

Only a concept and to the E-penis competition

[cegras]

Only a concept and to the E-penis competition

DMH

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Really?

[Dragy2k]

reading through this post let me know that theres lots of ATI haters out there, who by the sound of it would only like 1 gpu maker ....when will you learn that competition make our hardware prices drop and lets gpu designers take there finger out there a$$......
fair play to asus for looking at different angles

[tiro_uspsss]

if these come out @ a reasonable price, i'd get one

[squilliam]

if these come out @ a reasonable price, i'd get one

I'm not 'hating' on them. I just think it'll be really expensive.

I too would buy one, as I am getting close to getting a new card.
But having the 9600 in the $130 range doesn't help that matter.

[tiro_uspsss]

I'm not 'hating' on them. I just think it'll be really expensive.

I too would buy one, as I am getting close to getting a new card.
But having the 9600 in the $130 range doesn't help that matter.

totally understand u - tbh, i bet my bottom dollar they'll be too expensive too

[autobot]

I wonder when Eddy will have a block ready for this card? :P

[imapwnu]

thats like a pretty good joke DAAMIT

3 mxm's on an interposer w an external water cooler

[Frank M]

thats like a pretty good joke DAAMIT

3 mxm's on an interposer w an external water cooler

Joke or not, this single card got better 3dm03 and 3dm06 scores than
9800GX2 in Quad-SLI and 9800GTX in Tri-SLI. So I think the joke is on
nv, who think they can get by with re-releasing a reworked card again.

Derek: if the heat-exchanger is cooled, where the heatpipes lead, then
it might not be as difficult.

I still think this is a proof-of-concept that CF scales well and Tri-Fire
works, and this will not see mass production. However, it may pave
the way for future designs.

[squilliam]

Joke or not, this single card got better 3dm03 and 3dm06 scores than
9800GX2 in Quad-SLI and 9800GTX in Tri-SLI. So I think the joke is on
nv, who think they can get by with re-releasing a reworked card again.

Derek: if the heat-exchanger is cooled, where the heatpipes lead, then
it might not be as difficult.

I still think this is a proof-of-concept that CF scales well and Tri-Fire
works, and this will not see mass production. However, it may pave
the way for future designs.

Did it really? That's pretty neat (sorry I find it hard to remember which cards get what score).
I kinda think that this card doing so well could probably be due to the drivers.

[Leeghoofd]

Joke or not, this single card got better 3dm03 and 3dm06 scores than
9800GX2 in Quad-SLI and 9800GTX in Tri-SLI. So I think the joke is on
nv, who think they can get by with re-releasing a reworked card again.

Are you sure about this ? I too get +/-92K and 24K with a Qx at 4.5 on an 780i with 8800GTS 512 in SLI and not really time to test anything ( ram/dividers/drivers)... and the fact remains clear 3dmark is nice but shows to me only potential what the card can do, but (eg due to bad drivers) this doesn't reflect in game performance sometimes...

It's a nice card but I doub it will be produced in high numbers and could be very costly too... but nice creation Asus

[NotFred]

It has been reported that this is a proof of concept card, and is not intended to go to retail, so I think price speculation etc is all a bit pointless. Unless anyoen here has more credible info saying otherwise?

From CustomPC:

Asus has released a few photos of the card to show off its efforts, but Iain Bristow from Asus UK told Custom PC that it’s ‘not going to be released as a retail product.’ According to Bristow, the card was put together in an office and connected to a water-cooling block to say: ‘look what we can do, because we’re amazing engineers.’ And who can blame them? Only ten have been made, according to Bristow.

CustomPC article

[stoner]

VR-Zone tested the ASUS EAH3850 Trinity
H1 '08 Multi-GPU Battle: ASUS EAH3850 Trinity, EAH3870X2 and XFX GeForce 9800 GX2

[AliG]

I thought it was never meant to go into production so why bother benching it?

[The0men]

I thought it was never meant to go into production so why bother benching it?

Why not?

It would likely have driver issues, and wouldn't be king of the hill in terms of preformance, but its amazing to me that Asus have just gone out and done this.

If it can be produced at a reasonable price (though not likely to start with) it would be amazing to see what they can do with this idea in regards to using 3870, or maybe even doing something like this with NV.

[bowman]

They should do a 'GX2', sandwich two 3870 X2s.



Then get AMD to do driver support for four of those.

[thenrz]

Then get AMD to do driver support for four of those.

If it were feasible, they would have done it by now.



That an awesome looking card. I bet you'd get many 'what the hell's...' from your friends. It'd take two months pay to buy that thing...

[WangChung]

Heh, I posted about this two weeks ago. Hardly anyone batted an eye.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=187214

It'll be awesome if they can do something like combine 3 of these with nvidia cards, and get 3x3 SLI. Or something a little more feasible, 2 GPUs and 1 physics processor, and mix and match how you please.

[Mungri]

If you have a capable motherboard, you can just get 3 x club 3d overclocked 3850s for £70 each = £210 for tri 3850s.