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DrNip 06-16-2009 04:43 AM
Anyone Else See This?
 
Quote:
ASUS Mars to sell for $1670 a piece
Written by Jon Worrel
Tuesday, 16 June 2009 08:36

http://www.fudzilla.com/images/stori...tx295_logo.jpg

A true collector's item for ultimate e-peen

We have no idea what the PR guys at ASUS were thinking on this one, but the graphics monstrosity known as ASUS Mars Limited Edition equipped with dual-GTX 285s is going to cost an arm, leg, hip, thigh and possibly a few other vitals. (I need a new liver.sub.ed.)

In a consistent stream of speculation prior to the announcement of the GPU at Computex, a few enthusiasts have been taking logical guesses that the price for the card should be a little more than double that of a single GTX 285 2GB model. It turns out that a majority of estimations were terribly wrong, as Scan.co.uk currently lists the card for £896.50 ($1461) and £1,030.98 including VAT ($1680).

To recap, buyers would be paying for a limited edition one in one-thousand card featuring two 55nm GTX 285 GPUs (G200-350-B3) at 648MHz each, 480 shaders (240 x 2) at 1476MHz, and 4GB (2 x 2GB) of 512-bit GDDR3 0.77ns at 2484MHz. Total peak fillrate out of the box would be roughly 41.47 Gigapixels-per-second and 2.12TFLOPS, allowing Far Cry 2 to run almost flawlessly in SLI at Quad-HD resolution.

There isn't much to say at this point, other than the fact that SLI owners are going to be the ultimate bearers of graphics processing bliss until ATI and Nvidia compete again for the 40nm high-end crown.

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SOURCE:
http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/14226/1/

GTFOH!!!!

Buckeye 06-16-2009 04:57 AM
WoW hefty price :(

They way these thing go is in a few months a new card will come out that will out perform this one. It does look like a nice card tho...

I so hate buying GPU's :(

DrNip 06-16-2009 05:03 AM
That is the price of a cheap car!

Peen 06-16-2009 05:08 AM
I bought a 1985 Honda accord 2 years ago still works great, It cost me half this!

ReverendMaynard 06-16-2009 05:41 AM
This card will clock like crap just like the current single 285's, possibly two of the worst cards that I've ever owned.

hellcamino 06-16-2009 05:46 AM
Today $1670...resale next year...$150....getting screwed by nvidia again...priceless!

Chuchnit 06-16-2009 07:15 AM
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Originally Posted by hellcamino (Post 5004)
Today $1670...resale next year...$150....getting screwed by nvidia again...priceless!
hahahaha ATI FTW!! :D

ReverendMaynard 06-16-2009 08:12 AM
word. If I hadn't had the urge to try Sli seeing that I swore never by a board based on an nV chipset..and the X58 opened that up, I'd be rolling some 4890's by now.

anyone want 2 - 285's? I'll trade straight up for two 4890's!

punx223 06-16-2009 08:38 AM
i run ati cards too :ash1: considering where i work :rofl

Jeffro64 06-16-2009 10:29 AM
Ummmm....Yeah, I think they can keep them.

punx223 06-16-2009 12:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Jeffro64 (Post 5029)
Ummmm....Yeah, I think they can keep them.
unfortunately there will be someone dumb enough to buy them

Jeffro64 06-16-2009 02:25 PM
We can always be sure of that.

Kal-EL 06-16-2009 05:00 PM
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Originally Posted by punx223 (Post 5047)
unfortunately there will be someone dumb enough to buy them
:rolleyes:

Chuchnit 06-16-2009 05:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Kal-EL (Post 5063)
:rolleyes:
I know your love of Nvidia CAN'T run that deep. Can it :p

punx223 06-16-2009 05:57 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Chuchnit (Post 5077)
I know your love of Nvidia CAN'T run that deep. Can it :p


i DONT THINK SOUPS WILL BUY IT..... OR WILL HE? :eek:

Chuchnit 06-16-2009 06:01 PM
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Originally Posted by punx223 (Post 5090)
i DONT THINK SOUPS WILL BUY IT..... OR WILL HE? :eek:
Oh the suspense :rofl

Peen 06-16-2009 06:02 PM
And I feel all sad when something drops $50 in price

Jeffro64 06-16-2009 11:57 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by punx223 (Post 5090)
i DONT THINK SOUPS WILL BUY IT..... OR WILL HE? :eek:
Nah.... He'll buy two.:trophy:

Rogue210 06-17-2009 02:00 AM
that is nutz if he does......but then again

Buckeye 06-17-2009 03:19 AM
Well they are no good unless you run them in SLI.

First you have to strip off the case, fans and all that jaz, then mount blocks and connect it up to some crazy chiller and freeze the heck out of em.

Jeffro64 06-17-2009 04:35 AM
That's right up soups' alley!

Kal-EL 06-17-2009 11:15 AM
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Originally Posted by Buckeye (Post 5112)
Well they are no good unless you run them in SLI.

First you have to strip off the case, fans and all that jaz, then mount blocks and connect it up to some crazy chiller and freeze the heck out of em.
Sounds like something Buckey would do. :D

Neuromancer 06-17-2009 12:18 PM
Wow, that thing must be made of pure gold?


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