Why I love Asus.

Man I'll say it again I just can't imagine what the market is like for a board like this. I wish I could find statistics on how many of these higher end boards they actually sell.
 
Yes innovation! Especially a graphics card that doesn't suck! (puts my 8800gts too shame too :( )
 
drop the lucid chip off that & it would be an awesome board for when doing builds for other people.. WOuld also allow some very SLIM PC's
 
bastage said:
drop the lucid chip off that & it would be an awesome board for when doing builds for other people.. WOuld also allow some very SLIM PC's
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Why would you drop the Lucid chip? Then the integrated 5770 becomes useless when you install a discreet GPU. That Lucid chip allows the integrated 5770 to boost performance no matter what additional graphics cards you install...

Also, it might be slim, but it would still be E-ATX. That motherboard is gigantic.
 
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Seems like a waste. They will likely be charging at least the cost of a normal 5770 or more on top of the board price. Its an interesting concept but should stay that way.
 
I thought Nvidia killed off Lucid's abilities with their drivers a while back? I remember hearing about it and being very excited, but then heard it got killed off.
 
spydermonkey said:
I thought Nvidia killed off Lucid's abilities with their drivers a while back? I remember hearing about it and being very excited, but then heard it got killed off.
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Not yet, but according to some rumors it's something they'll look at if Lucid actually becomes popular.
 
Unknown-One said:
Why would you drop the Lucid chip? Then the integrated 5770 becomes useless when you install a discreet GPU. That Lucid chip allows the integrated 5770 to boost performance no matter what additional graphics cards you install...

Also, it might be slim, but it would still be E-ATX. That motherboard is gigantic.
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drop the lucid will take some of the size off the board & alot of the cost. & it wouldn't stop you from crossfireing still without it.

AS a high end solution I dont see lucid doing much if anything. But a board with integrated 5770 graphics would be a great board. as it sits now its about as useful as that DFI with a Intel atom board built onto the socket 775 board. a few people will use it but for most its cost that gives no real advantage.
 
x58 plus hd5770 plus lucid = $450 or so. also have to think about donating maybe 1gb of your ddr3 to it.
 
vanilla_guerilla said:
x58 plus hd5770 plus lucid = $450 or so. also have to think about donating maybe 1gb of your ddr3 to it.
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No the board already has 512MB of VRAM on it already. While having an integrated 5770 is really cool, I would have preferred 1GB of VRAM.
 
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