Thread: Asus ares graphic card

Previous year Asus impressed us Mars graphics board which insert 2 GTX 285 graphics processing units on 1 PCB. Confessedly we were impressed more by the cost and the engineering of the board than by its value for money, but Asus held the Mars sufficient of a success to create a successor: the Ares.


Unluckily, dissimilar the Mars, which was singular and engineered from the ground up to suit 2 graphics processing units that were not explicitly planned to function both, the Ares is founded on a retail product, namely Radeon HD 5970.


That is not inevitably a worst thing though as the final heavily overclocked edition of this card we saw - the Sapphire Toxic - blew us away with its function. Different the Toxic though the Ares has an nearly fully restyled PCB with plenty of enthusiast level characteristics.




Most evident of these is the highly changed power system which just sports VIII-phase power circuitry as fought to the IV-phase of the stock HD 5970. This crabbed up circuitry flows power to the 2 HD 5970 graphics processing units which function at 850MHz. This constitutes a 125MHz bump over stock HD 5970 velocities but is 50MHz lower than Sapphire handled with its Toxic card.


The Ares'IV GB of memory too profits from its possess devoted 2 phases of power circuitry which assist it hasten along at a spritely 1.2GHz (4.8GHz effective). Again this is a hefty overclock over the 1GHz (4GHz effective) of the stock card but is coped with by the Toxic card. This inserts the Ares in a moment of a bind, as it is recently selling more than the Toxic card contempt having an inferior overclock.


The Toxic received a excellent deal of praise for its custom cooler as the HD 5970’s stock cooler is noisy and is not perfect for cooling 2 to a great extent overclocked graphics processing units. As a solution it was no surprise to encounter Asus had too corresponded a custom cooler, what was a surprise though was only how much the cooler considered.