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Asus Crams Three GPUs onto a Single Graphics Card
Barence writes "PC Pro has up a look at Asus' concept triple-GPU graphics card. It's a tech demo, so it's not going to see release at any point in the future, but it's an interesting look at how far manufacturers can push technology, as well as just how inefficient multi-GPU graphics cards currently are. 'Asus has spaced [the GPUs] out, placing one on the top of the card and two on the underside. This creates its own problem, though: attaching heatsinks and fans to both sides of the card would prevent it from fitting into some case arrangements, and defeat access to neighbouring expansion slots. So instead, Asus has used a low-profile heat-pipe system that channels the heat to a heatsink at the back of the card, from where it's dissipated by externally-powered fluid cooling pipes.'"
Fuck Everything, Were doing five cores.
So does that mean we can play Crysis now?
How many power supplies are required? Does it come with a 12 KV step-down transformer and 220V three-phase power hookup? Can I heat the basement with it?
Baaaah! Just more proof that MORE is always better! Right?
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"Fuck everything, We're doing three GPUs!"
...this is old news. They've already done five cores some time ago.
Big! Strong! Wow! Tada-O!
Wow! A beowulf cluster of graphics cards! That certainly ought to be enough to run Duke Nukem Forever!
This is a terrific advance in the field of cramming. I'm looking forward to seeing their presentation at the Cramming and Stuffing conference later this year.