The Fastest Single Graphics Card On The Planet:Asus ARES/2DIS/4GD5

Asus present Ares: a graphics card dedicated to god of war!

We have finally seen the card Asus Ares. Like Mars before it, this graphics card is a monster, both by the weight, design by what lies beneath the enormous cooler. To believe that the manufacturer really likes to name his mythology monsters like the gods of war of the Romans and Greeks from antiquity. When will Venus with a pink and PCBs,’re crazy, a freshener?

Ares, the long-awaited HD5970

The model was designed in March on two graphics processors GeForce GTX 285 with more memory than 4 GB of GDDR3. And Ares is soaked in the same steel. Except here, they are actually two ATI Radeon HD 5870 which are united on the same piece of PCB with a chip acting as a bridge between the two CrossFire. The 4 GB of GDDR5 memory are part, as a dual memory bus of 256 bits.




We have not seen in operation, unfortunately, but the template of the Ares is a reflection of performance Asus advance: titanic. This is a true dual GPU solutions upscale like no more!

 
Big, heavy and tasty …
 
Consisting of a fan and a solid copper heatsink with six heatpipes, this graphics card offers a huge reinforcement of PCBs thick aluminum on the back, encouraging the transit flow of air at the back of map. This plate also prevents the card does not break under the weight of the cooling kit. Unable to evaluate the mass. Nevertheless, we expressed our concern to Asus about the perfect maintenance of the card in a box because just by weighing it is easy to imagine that it could damage your configuration if you do not attach correctly. The manufacturer has assured us he would consider a system of maintenance. Finally, it should not be taken less than three PCI-Express to supply (8-pin + 2 x 6-pin): no doubt that fat graphics card will have any appetite in terms of watts.

No pricing or availability yet in Europe but Asus plans to begin production by July. A chance to see the back .. but not for all PCs!

Positive points




* A graphics card exception

* A cooler presented as efficient and quiet



Negative points

* Heavy

* Do not go into all enclosures

* Must use



Technical specifications

Graphics Processor

ATI Radeon HD 5870 x 2

Video Memory

4GB

Interface

PCI-E 2.0 x16

Multi Technology

CrossFireX