Thread: Asus Ares and "wideness" tech

Currently we grabbed few time with the Asus technical gurus about their new cracking bits of hardware - the Ares: a fully vamped Radeon HD 5970 and the vastness - an LGA1366 Xfifty eight CPU board with Lucid Hydra and Radeon graphics board complete construct into the real PCB itself.


What is so particular about the Asus Field?
Just similar the MARS, just thousand Ares will be created from 2,000 hand-picked HD 5870 cores, and every will arrive in its own 'mafia-style cash case' with a Republic of Gamers gaming mouse thrown in. It will create an epic first impression when it comes on your doorstep!


Dissimilar the MARS, the Ares cards would not be numbered - we were said this is generally because the Chinese market is superstitious and last individual would not purchase or back cards with 4s or specified examples with 8s.




The Ares cards are construct utilizing a hefty 12 layer PCB - a comparison to the ten layers on MSI's restyled Lightening was in short mooted, although it was next with a swift injection that the Ares is a double-chip HD 5970 to the MSI's, arguably simpler, individual chip HD 5870.


The card's core ability hardware is somewhat informed, also - although the digital VRMs stay the similar as on the HD 5870 (for every core), the additional PCB place affords without signal interference and excellent grounding. The 8+8+6 PCI-Express sockets play an evenly significant role in the stable power provision consorting to Asus. Just the 8+6 are actually needed for common function - the additional Eight-pin is for additional function. 8+8+6 may look grossly excessive till you imagine that a common HD 5870 needs 2 VI-pin sockets, so CrossFire HD 5870 - which is essentially what the Ares is - needs four cables anyway.