Asus ARES: Is This The One Graphics Card To Rule Them All?

[spartanii]

for 1200 dollars I would want it to wipe my ass and please me sexually

 

[voicu83]

WTB that briefcase

 

[ati2ndbest]

GTX 480 SLI = There can be only one #1 !

 

[fausto]

now who can afford this?

 

[gfg]

many presentations with core i7 980x!!, why with the 920 ???????

 

[jonpaul37]

[citation][nom]falchard[/nom]For $1200, I can get 4-HD5870 and stick it into my Quadfire capable board. Man that would look awesome.[/citation]

Yeah, but there's no point in having 4 x 5870's as after the 3rd one there is minimal gains due to crossfire scaling, seems 3 is the sweet spot for now...

 

[willgart]

and what about the Ares in SLI? is it supported?

 

[avatar_raq]

@ Don Woligroski:
Nice job there! But I really wished if metro2033 benchmarks are included and more 3 monitors resolutions are tested for more games.


[citation][nom]willgart[/nom]and what about the Ares in SLI? is it supported?[/citation]
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/ARES_CrossFire/
[citation][nom]jonpaul37[/nom]Yeah, but there's no point in having 4 x 5870's as after the 3rd one there is minimal gains due to crossfire scaling, seems 3 is the sweet spot for now...[/citation]
2 cards is the sweet spot..The 3rd adds so little FPS and the 4th adds almost nothing!

 

[razercultmember1]

when this card is in the 50 dollar range i'll buy it >😛 +10 years haha

 

[avatar_raq]

Sorry for posting again, but I see now that 2 5870s in CF perform generally better than the Ares (by a small margin really), could this be due to having 8x per gpu for the Ares and 16x for the CF setup? Or is it a driver issue?

 

[Onus]

So, what this boils down to is, someone buying this card and letting others know about it is just admitting he had more money than sense.

[citation][nom]willgart[/nom]and what about the Ares in SLI? is it supported?[/citation]
No. ATI cards are not supported in a SLI configuration.

 

[Soul_keeper]

That mouse is identical to the HP branded gaming mouse i've been using for months now.

 

[jitpublisher]

$1200? It's not happening for me. Ridiculous.

 

[gxpbecker]

nice card.... at $1,200 this is only for bragging rights considering you can get dual anything else for cheaper lol

though funny how it is still less power/temp then the 480... now if ATI could just work harder on their drivers.. hmm

 

[atomyc]

NO THANKS! i'll built another computer with that money.

 

[ares1214]

this card is totally cramping my style 😛

 

[Otus]

In Crysis we actually see a slight decrease in average performance, but strangely enough the minimum frame rate is showing us that same 4% increase.

You may have overclocked memory too much. ECC kicks in and actually decreases performance, sometimes before instability.

 

[bk420]

Wow, that is one mean looking GFX card. It's amazing what manufacture have done for the consumer as of late.
The packaging of this beast is really cool too!

For the price of one Ares you might as well buy 3 HD5870...IMHO

The Ares is for bragging rights but it's nice to see a dual 5870 2GB in one card! I think the card height is my main concern.

A triple HD5870 will outperform (performance/power/price) and cost ~ $170 > than 2x GTX480.

 

[coldmast]

I'm wondering if this card actually maxed out the PCIex16?
I guess a good comparison would be running two 5870 stocks at 8x?

 

[ta152h]

Don,

Would you care to speculate why cards running in Cross Fire are slightly faster than the same processors on a single card? Do you think it's because the memory bandwidth isn't shared, since each has its own?

Also, do you think you'd see roughly equality if you were running on a lesser platform like the LGA 1156, or is the loss from using 8-lanes so minor it wouldn't make any difference?

 

[demonhorde665]

"On a final note, we have to consider the target audience of this card. Let's be honest, nobody buys a $1200 graphics card because they're overly concerned with performance per dollar. They buy it for high performance, exclusivity, style, and maybe even bragging rights. On these fronts, the Asus ARES can not be denied."

last i checked no gamers buy a single card that cost this much period LOL , usually this price range of cards youa re talking work station graphics for running auto cad , 3ds max and maya LOL, count me out , i'l be lucky to see 300 bucks for a readon 5850

 

[vulmer]

I want to see some crossfire benchmarks with the Ares!

 

[awaken688]

70 decibels! Holy crap. That would be annoying. Gotta love yelling over the fans.

 

[tolham]

so basically the only reason to buy this card is the right to brag that you can throw away money.

 

[odannyboy000]

I'd like to see this card crossfired