Asus gone mad again

Just browsing around and I got stuck on this:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/show [...] ubcat=1324
£1030 ~ $1705 for a graphic card :ouch:

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Reply to yonef

its been around for a few months now and at those prices...get two

Reply to ct1615

WOW O.O

Reply to blitzburgh39

its a limited edition gtx 295 2gb crossfired with another one, much like a vw phaeton 6 litre w12.

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huze5 wrote :

its a limited edition gtx 295 2gb crossfired with another one, much like a vw phaeton 6 litre w12.

Um, no it isn't... That would be four GPU's on the same card.. not for a few years son.

The MARS is effectively 2 gtx285's on one board instead of the under clocked 275's on the stock 295.

Also, nvidia has SLI, ati has crossfire.

Message edited by daedalus685 on 07-11-2009 at 10:16:59 PM

for just 700$ more, you can get an increase in.....5% of performance!! Buy Now!!!

Reply to computernewbie

Whats the need of that much memory........... It surely help in maxing out everything...even the PhysX at max. ... even cards with 1GB could do that task... then why spend money for it...

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meodowla wrote :

Whats the need of that much memory........... It surely help in maxing out everything...even the PhysX at max. ... even cards with 1GB could do that task... then why spend money for it...

I'm guessing you're a, "more than a handful is a waste" kind of man...

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Big boobies cut off your air when used as pacifiers !

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meodowla wrote :

Whats the need of that much memory........... It surely help in maxing out everything...even the PhysX at max. ... even cards with 1GB could do that task... then why spend money for it...

each gpu has 2GB which is enough for 30" 2560x1600 monitors with full AA/AF on

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But at least I'd die with a smile on my face...

Well said.

Reply to jedimasterben

I have two of this in my system. :sol:

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successful_troll wrote :

I have two of this in my system. :sol:

Rather keep this in secret. :lol:
what a moron will spend ~$3500 for a Graphics that are slower than 4x GTX285 OCed (costing nearly half) !?

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yonef wrote :

Rather keep this in secret. :lol:
what a moron will spend ~$3500 for a Graphics that are slower than 4x GTX285 OCed (costing nearly half) !?

You moron, you cannot have more than 3x GTX285(4x GTX285 = nonsense).

The Asus GeForce GTX 295 Mars is 23% faster than the standard GTX295.

Now go play Tetris with your pathetic HD 4870

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successful_troll wrote :

I have two of this in my system. :sol:

want proof. I was looking at buying some but could never find a place to do so. Post some screen shots and inside case pics.

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chef7734 wrote :

want proof. I was looking at buying some but could never find a place to do so. Post some screen shots and inside case pics.

I hope you are joking, because validating successful_troll like that is gonna make him double in power and annoyance. Just like feeding him after midnight.

Beyond that, I'm sure you are joking as no one would admit to actually wanting to buy one of those in a serious point..

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Message edited by daedalus685 on 07-11-2009 at 10:34:18 PM

daedalus685 wrote :

I hope you are joking, because validating successful_troll like that is gonna make him double in power and annoyance. Just like feeding him after midnight.

Beyond that, I'm sure you are joking as no one would admit to actually wanting to buy one of those in a serious point..

hell, if I hit the lottery, I'd buy 2 of them. Then it'd be no biggie to blow 35 hundred tho. With a real job, no way 275 for me.

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daedalus685 wrote :

I hope you are joking, because validating successful_troll like that is gonna make him double in power and annoyance. Just like feeding him after midnight.

You cannot imagine how dangerous I can be when you feeding me after midnight.

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daedalus685 wrote :

I hope you are joking, because validating successful_troll like that is gonna make him double in power and annoyance. Just like feeding him after midnight.

Beyond that, I'm sure you are joking as no one would admit to actually wanting to buy one of those in a serious point..

About me looking at putting 2 of these in my system. No it was not a joke just can not find a place that has them and not preorder. I currently have 3 xfx gtx 285 black editions in my computer and want more and 2 mars would do it. Crysis is still not fast enough for me.

Reply to chef7734

/facepalm ...... your money

Since we are all having so much fun with these overpriced things.. I reserve the right to refer to you as a spoiled rich ****wit for the rest of time if you actually purchase them.

I wouldn't even use em if I got them for free. Obviously the logical thing to do would be to sell them and but a triple SLI/Crossfire liquid cooled beast of a machine and overclock it till my eyes bleed.

I will spare the logical critique of your person and or soul as I'm still pretty sure we are all joking.

**Edit, the curse filter needs to stop cutting half my post out when it tries to correct my potty mouth... you American's live by the sensor way too much..**

Message edited by daedalus685 on 07-12-2009 at 09:53:58 AM

successful_troll wrote :

You moron, you cannot have more than 3x GTX285(4x GTX285 = nonsense).

The Asus GeForce GTX 295 Mars is 23% faster than the standard GTX295.

Now go play Tetris with your pathetic HD 4870

yeaah, 23% faster and 320% more expensive!
As I couldnt find any benches of 3xGTX285 (clocked to ~700Mhz) to compare with 2xGTX295 mars ed. I'm pretty sure that the difference will not be more than few procents, as we know that 4 GPUs are not scaling that good as 3 GPUs do.
So 3x superclocked GTX285 will cost you ~£800, still £200 less than single AsusGTX295 and will be alot more faster.
I realy want to see some benches of superclocked 3x GTX285 compared to 2x Asus GTX295 (leave 3D mark alone, as we do NOT play on 3D mark. :lol: )

as for my 4870, I can play tetris with it, because it is cheap as brick. And a year after I bought it, it still maxing out my games and keeps me happy :bounce:

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Reply to yonef

Yes I could build another system similar to what I have now for the same price and in all reality I probably would not go that route. But I am looking at wc setups for my current system. That will probably be around 1k to support all the hardware. I want to get over 4 stable with my i7.

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yonef wrote :

As I couldnt find any benches of 3xGTX285 (clocked to ~700Mhz) to compare with 2xGTX295 mars ed. I'm pretty sure that the difference will not be more than few procents, as we know that 4 GPUs are not scaling that good as 3 GPUs do.
So 3x superclocked GTX285 will cost you ~£800, still £200 less than single AsusGTX295 and will be alot more faster.
I realy want to see some benches of superclocked 3x GTX285 compared to 2x Asus GTX295 (leave 3D mark alone, as we do NOT play on 3D mark. :lol: )

2x GTX295(the generic GTX295 NOT Asus Mars) are faster than the 3xGTX285 in crysis at list. Now imagine the difference with the 2x Asus GTX295 Mars against the 3xGTX285.
http://media.bestofmicro.com/W/2/1 [...] art-03.png

yonef wrote :

as for my 4870, I can play tetris with it, because it is cheap as brick. And a year after I bought it, it still maxing out my games and keeps me happy :bounce:

in what resolution you can max everything, in 320x240? :lol:

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successful_troll wrote :

2x GTX295(the generic GTX295 NOT Asus Mars) are faster than the 3xGTX285 in crysis at list. Now imagine the difference with the 2x Asus GTX295 Mars against the 3xGTX285.
http://media.bestofmicro.com/W/2/1 [...] art-03.png

Open your eyes.... i.e.. 3-way SLi GTX280..

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Reply to meodowla

I think GTX295 is 2xGTX260 216 core in 55nm......

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meodowla wrote :

Open your eyes.... i.e.. 3-way SLi GTX280..

Think before you post next time.

2x GTX295 are 17% faster than the 3xGTX280 in crysis(GTX285 are 7% faster than the GTX280) so still the 2x GTX295 are faster than the 3xGTX285.

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successful_troll wrote :

2x GTX295(the generic GTX295 NOT Asus Mars) are faster than the 3xGTX285 in crysis at list. Now imagine the difference with the 2x Asus GTX295 Mars against the 3xGTX285.
http://media.bestofmicro.com/W/2/1 [...] art-03.png

all I see is ref. GTX295 SLI is 17% faster than 3-way SLI reference GTX280 ONLY on 1680x1050 !!! Basicly 4 GPUs is 17% faster than 3 GPUs on 1680x1050 !!! And ref.GTX295 is 47% slower than 3-way SLI reference GTX280 on 2560x1600 which you sould play if you spend $3500+ for graphic cards ! Now imagine GTX295 Mars is 23% faster than ref.GTX295 - you still get behind 3-way SLI GTX280s (on 2560x1600) ! and ref. GTX280 is much slower than superclocked GTX285 !!!
Now imagine 3-way SLI superclocked GTX285 is faster than 3-way SLI ref.GTX280

And yes, you have to be moron to spend $3500+(mars GTX295 SLI) on graphics setup that is ±10% difference than $1400(3x OC GTX285) setup :pfff:

successful_troll wrote :

in what resolution you can max everything, in 320x240? :lol:

:lol: it's so funny when nvidia fanboys get irritated.

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yonef wrote :

all I see is ref. GTX295 SLI is 17% faster than 3-way SLI reference GTX280 ONLY on 1680x1050 !!! Basicly 4 GPUs is 17% faster than 3 GPUs on 1680x1050 !!! And ref.GTX295 is 47% slower than 3-way SLI reference GTX280 on 2560x1600 which you sould play if you spend $3500+ for graphic cards ! Now imagine GTX295 Mars is 23% faster than ref.GTX295 - you still get behind 3-way SLI GTX280s (on 2560x1600) ! and ref. GTX280 is much slower than superclocked GTX285 !!!
Now imagine 3-way SLI superclocked GTX285 is faster than 3-way SLI ref.GTX280

You moron this benchmarks are with the first drivers 181.20 that didn’t support very well quadsli with the 182 and letter the 2x GTX295 get 48fps in 2560x1600 and the 3xGTX285 get 42fps.

Also the GTX295 OC very well from 576MHz you can hit easily 670 MHz on air.

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Reply to successful_troll

The funny apart about this is that in a year or a year and a half at the latest there will be a single graphics card that destroys the "Mars" for cheap.

Oh and we all realize that the Successful_Troll doesn't own even one of these and doesn't have any idea about the performance of any of these cards. The truth is the "Mars" doesn't perform like it should because of drivers, they treat the card like a GTX 295 meaning the 1024 bit bandwidth is useless. Also 3 GTX 285s are far more powerful than 2 GTX 295s and they overclock far better. The "Mars" is a highly overclocked GTX 295, nothing more.

Hell I bet my system would out perform 2 of those considering I'm running actual drivers that are actually produced for my cards. If anyone actually bought 2 of these then they are well past retarded as the only reason I upgraded from 2 4870 X2s was because it didn't cost me anything after selling my old cards, but even then I know for a fact that I got NO NOTICEABLE performance difference, you can't make a maxed game at 60 FPS look any better at 80 FPS.

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successful_troll wrote :

You moron this benchmarks are with the first drivers 181.20 that didn’t support very well quadsli with the 182 and letter the 2x GTX295 get 48fps in 2560x1600 and the 3xGTX285 get 42fps.

Also the GTX295 OC very well from 576MHz you can hit easily 670 MHz on air.

That is a god damn lie. My friend has one that is water cooled and can not get past 620 Mhz no matter what. Go away.

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successful_troll wrote :

Think before you post next time.

GTX285 are 7% faster than the GTX280

According to Anandtech, a single GTX285 is 10% faster than a single GTX280...
http://www.anandtech.com/video/sho [...] =3501&p=10

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yonef wrote :

:lol: it's so funny when nvidia fanboys get irritated.

Buy the way I am not nvidia fanboy. I said that because you say that you can max everything with the 4870. I was going to say the same thing if you have a GTX260.

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The_Blood_Raven wrote :

That is a god damn lie. My friend has one that is water cooled and can not get past 620 Mhz no matter what. Go away.

http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/ [...] ndex2.html

Reply to successful_troll

I have never seen one do that and yes I've read 3-4 reviews that claim that the GTX 295 is a good overclocker but from experience it is not. Also my GTX 285 clocks to 790 Mhz on air and 830 Mhz on water. Also the memory does much better, but I have found the memory overclocks to be very scattered with the GTX 285.

Stock vs stock 3 GTX 285s > 2 GTX 295s and the GTX 285s overclock FAR better.

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The_Blood_Raven wrote :

I have never seen one do that and yes I've read 3-4 reviews that claim that the GTX 295 is a good overclocker but from experience it is not. Also my GTX 285 clocks to 790 Mhz on air and 830 Mhz on water. Also the memory does much better, but I have found the memory overclocks to be very scattered with the GTX 285.

Stock vs stock 3 GTX 285s > 2 GTX 295s and the GTX 285s overclock FAR better.

I've seen lots of people achieving such clocks(core clock 685MHz+) on a gtx 295 and its not my fault that your friend fails at overclocking.

As I said before 2x GTX295 are faster than 3x GTX285 in crysis.

Message edited by successful_troll on 07-12-2009 at 07:55:15 PM

Reply to successful_troll

Believe what ever you want in that strange little world of yours...

Reply to The_Blood_Raven

The_Blood_Raven wrote :

...Oh and we all realize that the Successful_Troll doesn't own even one of these and doesn't have any idea about the performance of any of these cards. The truth is the "Mars" doesn't perform like it should because of drivers, they treat the card like a GTX 295 meaning the 1024 bit bandwidth is useless. Also 3 GTX 285s are far more powerful than 2 GTX 295s and they overclock far better. The "Mars" is a highly overclocked GTX 295, nothing more....

Well said !
I know he doesn't have even ref.GTX295. If he does he will know the truth :lol:
I think he's just a moron who posting here just to build some posts in the forum : ~100 posts in less than 2 months and has nothing to say apart from argue with people for somthing he's not familiar with;

@ Successful_Troll :
calm down m8, they wont give you a price for most active forum member.

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yonef wrote :

I think he's just a moron who posting here just to build some posts in the forum : ~100 posts in less than 2 months and has nothing to say apart from argue with people for somthing he's not familiar with;

What do you mean I am “not familiar with” OK I am a troll (I cannot deny that) but what ever I said is true about everything.

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