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

[soulbro]

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

Now that's what I call liquid cooling!

<duck, run>

 

[pale paladin]

will somebody buy me one of these???

 

[nforce4max]

Finally a card that is larger than my ancient 7900GTX Duo and the 5970 that I still have room in my rust bucket case but who knows I can probably drown out the noise from the fan with a bunch of scsi, sata, and two ide drives. My other rig is louder still but that is OK.

 

[bildo123]

70 Db Full Load fan speed? As unsubstantial as it may sounds, I wouldn't buy this card based solely on its noise levels. Although the cooling is awesome, it still isn't good enough. I remember when you could buy a video card without the hidden cost of purchasing after market cooling to get things down to a reasonable level.

 

[nforce4max]

[citation][nom]Darkerson[/nom]I would love one of those until I got my electric bill after the 1st month[/citation]

Same here, hell I saved $10 the first month when I upgraded my workstation to a 3870 from a x1900xt.

 

[nforce4max]

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

Agreed, single slot and the bridge chip cuts the performance of dual gpu cards by 5-10% sometimes due to latency. They need to improve the I/O performance of pci-e when they introduce 3.0 and not just burst or clocks.

 

[nforce4max]

[citation][nom]demonhorde665[/nom]"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[/citation]

A 10 year old 3DFX 6000 (2600 pcb) sold for $2450 last week on eBay.

 

[Trueno07]

[citation][nom]thedreadfather[/nom]This card is so overkill for most of us, but so awesome.[/citation]

All of us.

 

[robwright]

So what's the exact penalty fro withdrawing 401(k) funds before retirement? Anybody know? Anybody?

 

[g00fysmiley]

very impressive card... if only it didn't cost more than my car x.x

 

[rohitbaran]

[citation][nom]gfg[/nom]many presentations with core i7 980x!!, why with the 920 ???????[/citation]
Maybe, they are assuming that after spending 1200 bucks on that monster, the buyer will come to his senses and buy a 300 bucks i7 920 instead of 1000 bucks i7 980! 😛

 

[rohitbaran]

[citation][nom]nforce4max[/nom]A 10 year old 3DFX 6000 (2600 pcb) sold for $2450 last week on eBay.[/citation]
Shows how much nostalgic people can become. Or probably ignorant! 😀

 

[maestintaolius]

[citation][nom]avatar_raq[/nom]@ Don Woligroski: Nice job there! But I really wished if metro2033 benchmarks are included and more 3 monitors resolutions are tested for more games.http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews [...] CrossFire/2 cards is the sweet spot..The 3rd adds so little FPS and the 4th adds almost nothing![/citation]
Haha, that picture of the two cards effectively covering half the MB is hillarious.

 

[Ximile]

I second on that brief case!!

 

[eddieroolz]

It looks good, but for $1200...I'll pass 😛

 

[cleeve]

[citation][nom]desolationjones[/nom]Why do the sli 480 benches for Crysis look completely off? In Crysis at 1920x1080, a single 480 gets the exact same performance of 480s in sli...[/citation]

I rebenched Crysis with SLI'd 480's and edited some information into the article. Check the "benchmark Results: Crysis" page for more info!

 

[Guest]

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/ARES_CrossFire/1.html
ARES in crossfire, looks great whenever crossfire works well, too bad the drivers are so premature so far.

 

[megamanx00]

Awesome. I'd never buy one because of the price, but then it's not like you buy one of these because you're concerned with value 😀

 

[Lutfij]

*DROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL*

 

[xtc28]

Hmmmmmm!!!!! My next card me thinks!!!!!!!

 

[Guest]

70 DBA?????? Where am I at, an airport????????

 

[cmaki2008]

i just got a matrix rog 5870 and this still makes me jealous 🙁

 

[Guest]

If only we had some software that could make use of that raw processing power...

 

[sohei]

if you remove from the Ares package briefcase mouse and that 2 games witch is aprox 350 $ you realize that : ARES is 50 $ less that gtx 480 sli

and if you have the money for ARES you have extra money for eyefinity where ARES is brilliant
for me ARES is the Alpha Dog in any way

is extremely powerfull
great looking
eco friendly in comparations to Nvidia green team ( from sickness not else)
has a Name (ARES)
great cooling
great manufacture process
etc etc

 

[desolationjones]

From all the reviews I've seen, both the 470 and the 480 have had terrific scaling, especially in crysis In some cases the the 470 in sli even beats the 5870 in crossfire. Something must be terribly wrong with your setup.

http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-gtx-460-sli-review/11

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=23132&page=5

http://www.techspot.com/review/289-geforce-gtx-480-sli-versus-radeon-5870-crossfire/page5.html

http://www.overclock.net/nvidia/714561-my-gtx-470-sli-vs-hd.html

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/geforce-gtx470-sli_7.html#sect1