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

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I respect the ASUS card here-in and say it is an awesome thing to behold, but in my $21,000 PC/server rig I will stick NVIDIA cards... let me justify that statement. I have been building custon PC for 12 years now, and have made many that use both NVIDIA and ATI cards. I have never been upset with any of the NVIDIA cards even when graphics glitches appeared right at the outset because I know they have a great drivers development team that any reference NVIDIA driver will work for me (even for laptops I just go to http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/ and update the inf to make a particularly good build function. I CANNOT say that for ANY ATI/AMD video card even now that AMD has taken over. I ALMOST ALWAYS have to do things the extremely hard way, manually removing drivers-etc, with ATI/AMD drivers being to blame. Note I said drivers and not hardware, as of course the engineers are awesome at what they do! The extra hassle that ATI/AMD drivers present will always way heavily on my decision to stay away, and I will NEVER go back to them until they fix their unified driver design to fall in line with the way their rival NVIDIA has so excellently done.
 


Which are likely to be roasted if they put this out next.
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[citation][nom]marraco[/nom]Is too late to release this card. A pair of GTX 460 on SLI is faster, cheaper (450$), and eat less power.[/citation]


nope...but a a quad SLI of GTX 460s will do

 
For card like this, at this price range, I would definitely go with a water-block. Most of the people that can afford it already have a wc loop anyway. Great card though, nice review.
 
[citation][nom]HavoCnMe[/nom]I want to see the review of this card in Crossfire....It should be disgustingly fast![/citation]

Agree... while I know it is already very impressive that TH can actually have one to test.

If I have that much money to burn I will definitely try Dual ARES in corssfire mode. Wondering will ASUS's driver support Dual ARES?
 
good article.but enilighten me ,why are you using i7-920 when the buyers of this card or comparable setups would probably use the 980X.Also,the power consumption in the configurations costing $1000+ are irrelevant so, I see very little reason to buy the Ares. Maybe the MARS II will fare better, but until then, so long ARES, you're too expensive to buy and a GTX 480 SLI setup is much cheaper and a much better performer
 
[citation][nom]youssef 2010[/nom]good article.but enilighten me ,why are you using i7-920 when the buyers of this card or comparable setups would probably use the 980X[/citation]

Mostly because a 920 overclocked over 3 GHz will perform pretty much identically to a 980X when it comes to games.

Consider yourself enlightened! 😉


[citation][nom]youssef 2010[/nom]Also,the power consumption in the configurations costing $1000+ are irrelevant so, I see very little reason to buy the Ares.[/citation]

When it comes to power consumption your opinion is valid but others may not share it, and their opinions are just as valid as your own. Our job is simply to test what we can so the readers have the information at their disposal to make their own decision.
 
[citation][nom]Anonymous[/nom]I would like to see 5870 x2 included. I run two Sapphire 5870s in xfire, for the same reasons that asus went with two of them on the same card. My benchmarks are better than what is listed but since I have a very different overall setup that is rather meaningless. Would really like to know where I stand.[/citation]

enlighten me
 
[citation][nom]Dinkydorkadoo[/nom]OK Nvidia,time to pull out the GTX 495.[/citation]

There's no practical need for it right now as their current flagship is giving them enough trouble in cooling and power consumption.But if they do it, it will most likely be like the 5970 i.e.two 470s on a single board or two 480s with the 470 clock speeds.

There's also a discount on Fermi cards on newegg so, if you want to grab one of them, this is the best time to do so.
 
[citation][nom]youssef 2010[/nom]But if they do it, it will most likely be like the 5970 i.e.two 470s on a single board or two 480s with the 470 clock speeds.[/citation]

I would say it'd probably be two 460s... much better power and heat characteristics for the new GPU.
 
[citation][nom]Cleeve[/nom]I would say it'd probably be two 460s... much better power and heat characteristics for the new GPU.[/citation]
I would... almost second that. If it's not two GTX 470's, it will be two refined GTX 470's (a GF100b or something). Failing that, it will be a fully fledged GTX 460 chip - with everything activated, so a GTX 460+ x2 or something.
 
What about Ares in Crossfire? Wouldn't that blow just about anything away? (For $2400... owwie.)
 
To all you people asking about CrossFire or SLI: It's just my guess that this card, being an ASUS card, can't.
//(CrossFire = AMD/ATI)
//(SLI = NVIDIA)
Also, is it just me or are those heatsink fins in the second picture bent?
 
[citation][nom]priox[/nom]To all you people asking about CrossFire or SLI: It's just my guess that this card, being an ASUS card, can't.//(CrossFire = AMD/ATI)//(SLI = NVIDIA)[/citation]

This is an ASUS-made Radeon, and Radeons use AMD/ATI GPUs.

It can work in CrossFire.
 
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