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ASUS MARS II Graphics Card Pictured
The Republic of Gamers MARS II, detailed earlier, is a new custom dual-GF110 based graphics card in the works at ASUS. Here are some of its first pictures, revealing a monstrosity that's about as long as a Radeon HD 5970, a couple of inches higher, and three slots thick. Its cooler sticks to the black+red color scheme in use with ASUS ROG products for a while now, and uses an intricate cutout design.
The shroud suspends two 120 mm high-sweep fans that blow air on to two heatsinks with highly dense aluminum fin arrays to which heat is fed by copper heat pipes. The card draws power from three 8-pin PCI-Express power connectors. The card uses two NVIDIA GF110 GPUs with the same core configuration and clock profile as GeForce GTX 580, effectively making MARS II a dual-GTX 580, which also provides the overclocking headroom of a GTX 580, something impossible on a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590.
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![]() That thing is HUGE.
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I only care about 2 things: price and TDP?
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lol... nearly looks like an ITX motherboard plugged into an ATX via PCI-E
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I have a plan.
I'm gonna save up enough money for this, then turn around and blow it all on a night out, and get absolutely smashed. I reckon that would be a better way to spend money.
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So it's a GTX 590 but they call it a dual-580?
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Giant pointless card is giant and pointless....
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What's with the insane amount of 560/570/580/590 variations? I've never seen so many video cards made, especially ones that have no purpose.
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Not that I would even consider getting this (even if I had the money), but I'm not fussed on the looks. Though its nice to see more 90mm fans.
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a useless behemoth, 6-12 months down the line a single/dual slot card will outdo this card without the need for 24 power connectors
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Due to the clocks. A 590 is a dual 580. I guess they can as it's not a reference design...
I can't imagine them (directly) making much money off this thing, but then that's not the point.
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all the fins are bent on the first part of it what a fail.
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lolol 3-8 pin PCIe connections. you'll need a small nuclear reactor to keep that thing running if you decide to overclock it.
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What's the point, guarantee going 580 SLI will be cheaper.
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Probably $1200, probably 550~650W.
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in case it's unclear: the little red 100% fan switch is used to switch the fan speed to 100% without any software - great for overclocking. pressing it again returns to normal temperature controlled fan speed.
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3x 8-pin...
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doubt it, since it's only 3x8pin connector, its not going to be over 400w after you factor in overhead. to be realistic, the msi 480gtx had 2x8pin+1x6pin(450w), and in reality it had TDP of only 275w. so i'm guessing somewhere around 400w TDP for this card (realistically speaking).
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W1z, any plans on doing a review of this? It would be great to see how it compares to a 590.
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