Everything in the computer industry is by two’s in CPU with the famous Intel core 2 Duo’s, and the video cards the 3870X2 and the 9800GX2, and now they are going to hit the number three for the benefit of speed and efficiency on, graphics cards. Well, we have three independent cores in the AMD Phenome chips, why can’t we have in one PCB three cores? Well, the ASUS company are fiddling with the AMD/ATI chips to fit in another core in the single PCB, well they are not the only one’s started the triple core video cards. A long time ago, in 2000 3dfx started the multi core with their Voodoo 5 5500 with the first PCB with two cores attached to it, as they unveiled it, they have some technical problems in performance and compatibility issues and lacking behind with the single-core Geforce DDR series.
Then in 2005 ASUS and Gigabyte has its turn playing with the NVIDIA chips to make the first successful multi-core VGA card. Gigabyte had a first crack at it, and connecting two 6800GT’s into their redesigned PCB to hold the two 6800GT’s, and they got a very large card, with both the cooler in it’s sides, which need’s about a hell of a space for the two large coolers and recommended a Gigabyte SLI certified motherboard. Then, ASUS with the use of the 7800GT’s, and as the same, they just stuck those two with glue and place a SLI bridge to connect it, and call it the 7950GX2. Well both went in the dark in the later years of its compatibility issues and exceptionally large form factor Especially the Gigabyte version of a multi GPU card.
With the new wave of multi GPU’s the 3870X2 and the 9800GX2, with the better way and technology to connect two GPU’s ASUS have successfully use the ATI mobile series of GPU chips into their MXM PCB, with the mobile chips for smaller size and the AMD’s 3000 series to be more flexible than any preview video cards make it all happen. With the GPU’s have 660MHz core frequency and 320 shaders each and 512MB’s of memory which adds up to 1.5 GB’s of pure crossfire memory and really speeds up the loading of Maps in games especially in really detailed and open environment like Supreme Commander, not a great fan of the game but you know what I mean. I try to benchmark the trinity in the performance, I way unable to say on it with the weird saying with the compatibility, and running it with the Crysis, is abit of a problem, I would just find new patches of crysis to benchmark it and update the tools I have, but in the mean time, a great effort with ASUS with using better chipsets to make it.
