quinta-feira, 10 de abril de 2008

Fw: Asus Crams Three GPUs onto a Single Graphics Card

URL:
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/267897416/article.pl
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.'"

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