Asus MARS II

[kill dank]

So, Asus released this beast of a GPU today. It's basically 2 GTX 580's in 1 card but without the lower clock speed of the GTX 590.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/Mars_II/

WANT.

But what are your thoughts?

 

[Noodles :)]

My opinion:
iwants. D:
Nvidia might get the strongestr GPU on the market again.

 

[Gurtaton]

Not many tech freaks here on Sythe.

It looks nice, but the price is pretty outrageous TBH. Richfags only, unfortunately.

 

[Noodles :)]

Not many tech freaks here on Sythe.

It looks nice, but the price is pretty outrageous TBH. Richfags only, unfortunately.

Not many, but theres a few.
Just seen the price , tri-sli 580s for the same price anyone?
richfags get all the good stuff.

 

[CsPeakz]

I'd easily get it if I didn't order 2x480s back in the days, the huge e-penis factor would play a huge part, aswell as crushing some old records on benchmarks.

 

[stevethemagic]

Its worth 2x the amount of my entire computer.

 

[DMR]

Price is outrageous... for what kind of games would you need such a powerful video card for? How much better graphics can there be?

Price will probably drop after a few months.

 

[Noodles :)]

Price is outrageous... for what kind of games would you need such a powerful video card for? How much better graphics can there be?

Price will probably drop after a few months.

The game is called e-peen.
People who need it? richfags, people running multimonitor displays/high res's.
Although same price you can get 3 580s, so fuck that.
This card would only be useful for heat if you want quad-sli 580s(2 cards=better airflow compared to 4 )

 

[Ivy Bridge]

Yeah fuck the price tag on this thing. The only benefit I can see if is you don't have the PCI slots to SLI or your motherboard doesn't support SLI. But then again, what person who is willing to drop this much cash on one component would have those complications? They're offered on basically every mid level board. I really don't see how this can be justified unless you really just have nothing to spend your money on.

I'd rather have 3x 580s for the same price, or 2x watercooled 580s that will more than likely reach higher clocks than even this beast.

 

[Delta Squad]

Being that i'm a nvid/Geforce fan boy i may buy it when it gets around 1 grand.

My new computer currently costs 1500 and i just got it a month ago.

 

[iSPYu]

I'd want this if I had a huge amount of extra money lying around, I plan to spend around $1,500 - $2,000 on a custom build system in total. with like 2 $250 graphics cards, lol.

 

[Noodles :)]

$1700 over here in Australia.
That's just how much our prices are raised fucking shit country.

 

[Ivy Bridge]

Being that i'm a nvid/Geforce fan boy i may buy it when it gets around 1 grand.

My new computer currently costs 1500 and i just got it a month ago.

Aren't they only making like 1,000 of these? I'm pretty sure you will never see these for $1,000. Especially seeing as it's pretty much two 580s on one PCB, with better stock cooling and two 580s retail like $450-$600 depending on vram/coolers.

 

[n4n0]

Quite sexy. I'm considering building a new new system here shortly, but I'm probably just going to keep using the 2x 480's that I have for now.

 

[Ivy Bridge]

Quite sexy. I'm considering building a new new system here shortly, but I'm probably just going to keep using the 2x 480's that I have for now.

Yeah really I doubt anything is gonna push 2 480s too hard for quite some time. Even so these cards seem to be oriented at collectors more than anything, considering you could get 3 or more GTX 580s (3GB versions too, these are only 1.5GB) for the same price, which = hell of a lot more performance/dollar.