AMD Announces Project Quantum

[GhostRyder]

OF course it will. But all those AMD-branded components are really a way to offset development costs, and are not made by AMD directly, merely carry AMD branding.

Yea I know, the SSD's are OCZ (Toshiba) for instance. My question on the will it perform part is mostly aimed at whether or not the CPU's inside will handle everything decent enough. That would be my primary concern.

Would be interesting either way as it looks great, would like to see one in person!

 

[Joss]

It's an Intel CPU in there. They're using the ASRock Z97E-ITX/AC:

Good catch

 

[FordGT90Concept]

I don't think that board is very relevant to Project Quantum. They might just use it for quality assurance of AMD graphics cards in Intel platforms.


I just wonder where/how the Fiji chips are in Project Quantum. I think they almost have to be soldered on to the mainboard. I also assume it has an external power supply--a very big one.

 

[xfia]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonev.../?hootPostID=92222b594a5dbb209a2f24220ab00f2b

they describe as a non proprietary mini-itx board off the shelf at forbes. forbes is always what they post on facebook. modified pcie for crossfire.. its just more efficient and smaller than what they have sitting around for this project. almost sad but amd/ati gpu's have been sitting next to intel cpu's for ages. just dont have the capitol to make a complete amd solution without oem support.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

That he does but I still very much doubt there is an Intel processor in there.

 

[Steevo]

The only way two Fury cards would fit is with them on their sides, horizontal positioning, and that leaves room for almost nothing, but you could use PCIe risers to turn them, or a custom board. I am guessing the top houses radiators and pumps.


Intel chip, AMD chip, who cares, I want to see what it does.

 

[Aibohphobia]

It'd use the dual-GPU Fury card, there's absolutely no room for a second video card in there because the motherboard and video card sandwich the water blocks:

 

[FordGT90Concept]

I was thinking the same: it needs a GPU riser card. You'd think if they're making this thing official, they'd build a proprietary board for it that more closely resembles a laptop board than a desktop board.