Asus mars ii??

[rogue woopa]

a dual 480?? with 3 8pin?? can it be??

that thing sounds wicked i bet it runs at like 105* and has jet turbines for coolers.

 

[hunter315]

3 8 pins is highly unlikely, thats a hell of a lot of power, likely in excess of 400W, you then start running the risk of overheating other things in the case, i imagine that much heat in a case would shorten the life of everything unless you are running your system in a wind tunnel in the arctic.

 

[shadow187]

3x 8-pin PCI-E would mean the chip is capable of using over 450Watts of power. This is highly unlikely.

 

[OvrClkr]

it uses 3 8pins

http://hothardware.com/News/Asus-DualGTX-480-MARS-II-Card-is-Out-of-this-World/

 

[mindless728]

don't you mean 525w, 3-8pin+slot = 3x150+75 = 525

i don't see this happening either, and if it does, you are looking at a $1500 card at least

 

[notty22]

The pcb for the Asus Ares has provisions for 3-8 pins , even though they only soldered on 2-8 pin and 1 6 pin.

 

[OvrClkr]

Asus Ares? Arent we talking about the Mars II?

 

[notty22]

Yeah I was just pointing out that its not a big deal that it has xx power connectors. When the low power ATI chips need basically the same thing. But of course I'm sure it runs cool to.

 

[Mousemonkey]

The pcb for the Asus Ares has provisions for 3-8 pins , even though they only soldered on 2-8 pin and 1 6 pin.
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/ARES/images/front.jpg

From an earlier thread on the same subject.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/293238-33-dual-gf100-impossible-made-possible

 

[OvrClkr]

I want to see the heat throughput on that beast...

 

[Mousemonkey]

I want to see the heat throughput on that beast...

I'm more interested in seeing the overall size once the HSF is on. :lol:

 

[OvrClkr]

Yeah I was just pointing out that its not a big deal that it has xx power connectors. When the low power ATI chips need basically the same thing. But of course I'm sure it runs cool to.

yea, I just don't understand how they made this possible. I assume that there will be a nice cooler added to this card, hopefully they raised the max heat threshold because rest assured this thing is going to hit 100c quite easily.