Saturday, September 19th 2009
DFI Mashes Two Systems into One, Rolls out Hybrid Motherboard
The term 'Hybrid' these days probably relates most to hybrid cars. DFI has taken the concept of two machines - a high-power one, and an energy-efficient one, to a whole new level with its Hybrid P45-ION-T2A2 socket LGA 775 motherboard. This motherboard literally packs two motherboards sharing a PCB: one P45+ICH10R based socket LGA-775 system, and another portion holding an Intel Atom processor powered by NVIDIA ION chipset. Each has its own memory and storage subsystems, and share the machine's IO (input devices and display) in a somewhat KVM-style. So even as the major system is busy playing games, transcoding media, or running other power-hungry tasks, the minor system is quietly running the downloads, playing music, etc. When the major system is not needed, the minor system provides enough juice for media consumption and internet browsing, and general productivity at a really low energy footprint. A pretty neat concept. DFI's engineers describe it further in this YouTube video.
Source:
TweakTown
82 Comments on DFI Mashes Two Systems into One, Rolls out Hybrid Motherboard
No way would MS let you use one license on both ends of this.
When your only running the atom part its only 30w used.
so you can leave the atom part running all the time downloading your bits and bobs, and just power up the 775 bit for gaming and video editing etc.
One of these would be awesome for me but way to expensive at the moment, hopefully this sort of thing becomes mainstream.