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zarx on 08 July 2010

and no you probably can't afford it, retailing for a cool $1200US and basicaly consisting of two 5870a on a custom bord it is apparently the worlds fastest single card outperforming the Nvidia GTX 480 and the ATI HD5970 it is one hell of a monster. And if you have enough money lying around could you pleas send it to me so I can build an entire new rig.

http://www.guru3d.com/article/asus-ares-review/1

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1357/18/



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Khuutra on 08 July 2010

I wonder how much heat this thing puts out. Could I cook an egg on it?



Foamer on 08 July 2010

Can you Crossfire two of them?



kiefer23 on 08 July 2010
Khuutra said:

I wonder how much heat this thing puts out. Could I cook an egg on it?



You could cook a pig on it.



NJ5 on 08 July 2010

Don't forget to buy the power plant to feed it as well. This thing uses more power than my whole PC.



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disolitude on 08 July 2010

Pretty good, but way too much $.

You could get 2 GTX480s for that price and run them in SLI for less (essentially what GTX490 is going to be) which seems to generate better benchamrks on most games.

To be honest I think I am done with dual GPU cards myself. There are so many issues...micro-stuter, so so GPU scaling in some games, crazy heat/or lots of noise...

I plan to sell my gtx295 and upgrade to single GPU gtx485 when it comes out.



welshbloke on 08 July 2010

If I ever let my 9600GT go I will look this up.



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eggs2see on 08 July 2010
disolitude said:

Pretty good, but way too much $.

You could get 2 GTX480s for that price and run them in SLI for less (essentially what GTX490 is going to be) which seems to generate better benchamrks on most games.

To be honest I think I am done with dual GPU cards myself. There are so many issues...micro-stuter, so so GPU scaling in some games, crazy heat/or lots of noise...

I plan to sell my gtx295 and upgrade to single GPU gtx485 when it comes out.


Haven't heard of the 5970 having any of the above problems tbh.  Also you should look to ATI and not nvidia at the moment they have better cards at present and will soon be releasing a whole new line up of cards.



disolitude on 08 July 2010
eggs2see said:
disolitude said:

Pretty good, but way too much $.

You could get 2 GTX480s for that price and run them in SLI for less (essentially what GTX490 is going to be) which seems to generate better benchamrks on most games.

To be honest I think I am done with dual GPU cards myself. There are so many issues...micro-stuter, so so GPU scaling in some games, crazy heat/or lots of noise...

I plan to sell my gtx295 and upgrade to single GPU gtx485 when it comes out.


Haven't heard of the 5970 having any of the above problems tbh.  Also you should look to ATI and not nvidia at the moment they have better cards at present and will soon be releasing a whole new line up of cards.

I have to stick with Nvidia since I invested in Nvidia 3D vision after trying out IZ3D and Tridef 3D using a HD 4850. 3D vision is by far the best out of the 3 for 3D gaming...

Otherwise I just googled "5970 microstuttering" and the problem is still there. Every multi gpu setup has it...



1337 Gamer on 09 July 2010

Yeah total waste of money. Id rather get a pair of 5870s and Crossfire them myself. Hell i could get 3 5870s for that price!



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