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good work Asus :D


a ROG board with on board 5770

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Before we go any further, we should make it clear that Asus is still referring to the board as a 'concept'. That said, there was a definite sense of excitement about the board and we’d be far from surprised to see it making it into production.

Asus Immensity: ROG board with on-board HD 5770 Asus Immensity: ROG board with on-board HD 5770
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As you’d expect, it’s a high-end LGA1366 board based on Intel’s X58 chipset. It also includes Lucid’s Hydra chip. Previously a favourite of MSI, the Hydra allows you to mix and match ATI and Nvidia GPUs in a multi-GPU system. While our initial testing was disappointing, Asus (and MSI) are both optimistic about its progress, and we’re keen to take another look.

That’s not all for the Immensity. It also has a GPU on-board, in the shape of one of the mid-range Radeon HD 5000-series chips. Asus’ thinking is that if you’re buying a board with the Hydra on it, you must be aiming to build a multi-GPU system – so why not provide the first GPU onboard? The downsides are that it reduces flexibility, but we can see where it’s coming from – if you already have a good graphics card (and they’re lasting longer and longer these days), an Immensity would be a one-stop way to get a multi-GPU PC.

The Immensity’s design also signals a return to what’s supposedly at the heart of the ROG brand – gaming performance. If the Hydra’s new drivers work as promised, then buying an Immensity would improve your games' performance.
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Sounds good, but leaves me asking what's the point?
Does this actually have any improvements over just sticking a 5770 into another motherboard?
 
hm i dont see the benefit, keep a nice simple onboard hd4200 or something instead... if u buy this board with the intention of crossfiring 5770;s you did something wrong...
 
Nickg said:
hm i dont see the benefit, keep a nice simple onboard hd4200 or something instead... if u buy this board with the intention of crossfiring 5770;s you did something wrong...
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The benefit is that you can chuck your current graphics card in, and get instant scaling goodness. Whether your card be a 8800GTX, 4870x2, 5770, GTX480 or whatever, it'll scale with the 5770 and they'll share the load (giggidy).
 
tibbsey said:
The benefit is that you can chuck your current graphics card in, and get instant scaling goodness. Whether your card be a 8800GTX, 4870x2, 5770, GTX480 or whatever, it'll scale with the 5770 and they'll share the load (giggidy).
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Exactly, that's what the Hydra chip is for. Seems a great idea to me, you get a decent integrated GPU (means that once you've forked out your life savings for the motherboard, you can save up your pennies for the GPU(s) to go in there), and then the 5770 won't be useless, as it'll help the 3 5870s you've bought...
 
simulatorman said:
Failure my a.... The queues stretch to the end of the block and back. :D
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Just because people buy them doesn't mean they are good. Most people probably haven't used one, or in my case three. There is a reason we no longer produce overclocked bundles with them.

momo56 said:
Hey sorry what do u mean massive failiure? I was thinking of upgrading from a rampage ii to rampage III. Should I think twice?
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You should think once and that thought should be "Do I want to waste money?".
THe REIII has poor chipset cooling, clunky and unecessary BIOS features and poor OC performance. I would not recommend it to anyone. I have a REII and its the best board i've owned, I don't know what Asus were thinking with this one especially as the Crosshair IV was so good.

It is only worth it, if you want USB3.0/Sata6Gb/s and really like the aesthetics of it. Hey you might be lucky and get a good one.
 
The Rampage III is a good board, but it's got a poor cooling system which looks nice but let's be honest, an asthmatic blowing on the chip would do a better job..
 
NathWraith said:
You should think once and that thought should be "Do I what to waste money?".
THe REIII has poor chipset cooling, clunky and unecessary BIOS features and poor OC performance. I would not recommend it to anyone. I have a REII and its the best board i've owned, I don't know what Asus were thinking with this one especially as the Crosshair IV was so good.

It is only worth it, if you want USB3.0/Sata6Gb/s and really like the aesthetics of it. Hey you might be lucky and get a good one.
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From my experience it overclocks very well and the cooling is no worse than on an P6X58D Premium.

You should post your views in the REIII thread. ;)
 
Not personaly, but I built a rig for a friend using it, we put his old rampage back in as it's much better. So yeah I have used one.
 
maybe its good for when you upgrade your GPU's, you can resort back to the onboard GPU which is semi-decent while you sell and wait for the new tech to come out?
 
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