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nice review w1zzad, good work
but w1zzard why there is no rate for this card

It would be badzors, and he don't want to piss ASUS guys that send him goodies to review. He is keeping his integrity and ASUS love :eek:

Again people don't buy this marketing gimmicks, get two regular reference cards, water cool it and pwns butts. Or get the Toxic card, its a lot more quiet.
 
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$1000 for the biggest hunk of compensatory silicon, with the most unconscionable waste of power ever.
 
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I want one. Sexiest card ever. Looks like they too care and effort into every aspect of it's design. I think $1000 bucks is a fair price for such a product.

Me too, would finally get use for all the powerplugs on my PSU :laugh: $1000 is a LOT, but this think at least tries to fill it with awesome case, nice accessory and all that copper + metal shroud.

Sadly I won't ever get one, it will be $500 in a year and by that time it has lost it's fastest card ever status. Anyhow :respect: to all who have one/going to get one.

Oh and remember to support the card somehow :D
 
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It would be badzors, and he don't want to piss ASUS guys that send him goodies to review. He is keeping his integrity and ASUS love :eek:

Again people don't buy this marketing gimmicks, get two regular reference cards, water cool it and pwns butts. Or get the Toxic card, its a lot more quiet.

hmmm, as i expect ;)
 

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Just noticed Metro:2033 was added to the benchmark suite, awesome!
 
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It kind of reminds me of an 80's muscle car. It's built like a tank though, lol. Outstanding review as always.
 

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Great review. Need to lose the $300.00 case and mouse LOL. And use the extra for a psu to run it. LOL.
 

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What sort of a PSU will be able run two of these? 1200W PSU enough?
 

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What sort of a PSU will be able run two of these? 1200W PSU enough?

Not if all you do is play furmark. But in real-world situations, there isn't a real performance benefit form the extra 2 gpus, so most likely, each gpu is in use, but under less load than they would be when on thier own. you might be able to get away with 1000w, but if overclocking, you are gonna need a seperate breaker wired just for your pc.:laugh:

It would be a total of 44 pins for vga power. Even on EVGA SR2, it's only 40 pins, for all that ram, and 2 cpus! Mind you two side-by-side are about the size of a matx board...:laugh:

So obscene. I love it. :laugh:
 

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Not if all you do is play furmark. But in real-world situations, there isn't a real performance benefit form the extra 2 gpus, so most likely, each gpu is in use, but under less load than they would be when on thier own. you might be able to get away with 1000w, but if overclocking, you are gonna need a seperate breaker wired just for your pc.:laugh:

It would be a total of 44 pins for vga power. Even on EVGA SR2, it's only 40 pins, for all that ram, and 2 cpus! Mind you two side-by-side are about the size of a matx board...:laugh:

So obscene. I love it. :laugh:

I still havent thought of getting the Ares. But probably i'll start of with one card if i feel like getting it lol. Still waiting for to see the Ares HD5970 . My mobo should be able to handle two of them since it has seven PCI-E x16 slots lol. :laugh: And i never OC my graphic cards. So hopefully 1200W can do the job. :cool:
 
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That is a nice card, I love the packaging too.
 
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At least, this is the successor of ASUS MARS, regarding their brands, and if a GTX 480 x2 comes out, will that beat the ASUS ARES? This is just a speculation...
 

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At least, this is the successor of ASUS MARS, regarding their brands, and if a GTX 480 x2 comes out, will that beat the ASUS ARES? This is just a speculation...

Probably will be equal but will beat the ARES in Tessellation performance.
 
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:eek: this the beast king Of single card..
big Fat powerful and also power hungger...and expensive too..
anyway..thx Wizz for the review..nice job:toast:

i just can only dreaming to have one...:shadedshu
 
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Great test wiz, thank you!

As a side-note, will this card put the "oh 480 is a BBQ and eats power" to rest? hehe
 
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This card would be a importers nightmare, 8kg weight and aluminum case, yeah, gift wont work hehe.

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$91.25

$86.69

Ok not so much then... Considering a 1000USD card
 
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Maybe a radial fan would be more efficient. Then again, it could be noisier... :rolleyes: But if they equipped it with the same kind of fan as on the Zerotherm GX series, those are quite quiet.
 

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Couple of things.

1. I just jizzm'd in my pants.

2. I am in love with the card.

3. I almost crapped my pants at the price, sorry, I want it but I cannot afford it.

4. BAD ASS

5. I want to see Nvidia come out with a dual 480X design, which I think they will. To see how they stack up. (no I am not knocking nvidia or anything like that).

6. Surprised to see the ATI card do well in the DX 11 Uniengine benchmark, I thought I saw where a RADEON card on a review on the site couldn't run the test.
 
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what a really devastating force, it even eat crysis A live !!!!


but it definitely improvement from mars card, and really look premium, so if i have $1000 laying around I'm definitely buy this monster
 
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Thanks for the review...

The packaging is awesome!!
 
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