Wednesday, June 17th 2009
ASUS Prepares Custom R.O.G. Mars 285 Monster Video Card
Here's a good example of what can be born in times of recession. ASUSTeK is planning on asking $1700 for its latest ASUS R.O.G. (Republic of Gamers) Mars limited edition graphics card. Well the card is an eye catcher for sure, but it's up to you to decide if it's worth the cash after all. On paper specs look almost too good to be true, the card will carry two NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 (G200b) GPUs on a single PCB. Each main graphics proccessor will be complemented by 2 GB DDR3 memory for a total of 4 gigs working at 2484MHz with 512-bit memory bus width. Each of the graphics processors will operate at 648 MHz with 480 stream processors, meaning that R.O.G. Mars will be as fast at two GeForce GTX 285 graphics boards in SLI mode and faster compared to a standard NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 graphics solution. ASUSTeK engineer estimate that the card will offer 23% higher performance compared to the reference NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295. The ASUS R.O.G. Mars limited can also be paired in SLI, for a total of four GeForce GTX 285 graphics cores and whooping 8 GB video memory on a single desktop system. There will be only one thousand of ASUS ROG Mars graphics boards ever built, each will be marked with its own unique number. English Scan.co.uk is now taking pre-orders of the card for £1030.98, which is approximately $1700 or €1222.
Source:
X-bit labs
57 Comments on ASUS Prepares Custom R.O.G. Mars 285 Monster Video Card
Holy cow that's pricey. For that amount of money a representative from Asus should come over and install if for me and when ever I have issues. They should come over and fix for free*cough*. I'd rather wait and see if the 3XX's out-do the 295 and be cheaper. It does look cool tho but Id rather go for performance then looks since you don't see the card most of the time anyways.
now imagine if any of this cards arrive to my country???
here all are overpriced so if now the price seems ridicolus to you HOW it will cost here?
at least I think will be $2000 bucks.
man, with that money I can buy 3,000 beers (aprox. 350ml each) and get drunk the next 10 years. :)
But I agree with some of you because next-gen vid cards are indeed coming out within the next 3-4 months along with Windows 7. And will undoubtebly perform faster than these 285's. So I find these pointless :)
you know`? cars are like computers for the dumb. its all about "Engine Tweaking"
www.ocaholic.ch/xoops/html/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=307&page=1
not to mention most news items still refer to it as a custom 295.
I feel awful that I bought 2 of them, but like everyone said, they are collectors items and will go fast. It will definitely be good for my buisness. going to do some benchmarks soon. Is there anything you all want me to post besides the obvious. (crysis,3dmark) :nutkick:
If I were to go against heavy benchmarks what do you suggest for water cooling on these things. I think the koolance water blocks for my current setup would work on these but I dont know If I should use something better If I want the scores to be higher.. I'm not the best at water cooling but I do a decent job I think. I watch trubritar videos sometimes and he has great overclocked scores with water cooling but he does'nt disable physx. Something that's needed to reach the highest and most genuine score possible :D
I was afraid of that. You dont think my dual pcb waterblock from koolance will fit at all?
I looked up many forums that said it was alot different.. Maybe some liquid nitrogen then? :toast: lol