Asus Trinity HD 3850 X3

ChampionLLY · 29th Mar 2008, 08:37 PM

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Asus dropped down to bit-tech offices yesterday afternoon to show off its new HD 3850 X3 graphics card - yes, that's right THREE 3850 GPUs on a single PCB. How does it achieve this? Using MXM modules and some clever use of heatpipes and watercooling - the cores all face towards the board and the memory on the back is heatsinked.

The MXM modules (two on the back and one of the front) get a pair of heatpipes each which, are then routed down to the cooling block at the end - this cooling block is then watercooled (Asus brought down a Thermaltake 5.25" bay kit) to take the heat away.

Because of this, the card is whopping 1.45kg and extends over the length of even a full size ATX motherboard (in our case the Maximus Formula below). It has four DVI outputs, it requires just one eight-pin power adapter and each HD 3850 MXM module has its 320 stream shader core clocked to 668MHz and has 512MB of GDDR3 clocked at 1650MHz memory, but since these are in CrossFire by pairs of ribbon cables, this is mirrored between the modules instead of making 1.5GB of graphics memory available.

Source: bit-tech.net | Asus shows off its Radeon HD 3850 X3 Trinity

ChampionLLY · 29th Mar 2008, 08:38 PM

ChampionLLY · 29th Mar 2008, 08:39 PM

Trinity · 29th Mar 2008, 08:44 PM

"Trinity"...

Mac Daddy · 29th Mar 2008, 11:38 PM

Hey Trin I think they should send you one

Isn't that an interesting card can't wait to see how it performs

ChampionLLY · 30th Mar 2008, 12:03 AM

wad a coincidence

Mac Daddy · 30th Mar 2008, 02:30 AM

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Originally Posted by ChampionLLY

wad a coincidence

Ya like me seemingly getting hacked in another thread on news ... I am awaiting the Wong CPU cooler to be released

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Mac Daddy Pickin' Da Gitfiddle Join Date: 19 Nov 2007 Location: Canada Posts: 2,049 Reputation: 802 Rep Power: 12	Hey Trin I think they should send you one Isn't that an interesting card can't wait to see how it performs