Asus Rumored to be Crafting Insane Dual-Hawaii Ares III Card
Rumor has it that Asus is crafting a new Ares III graphics card.
A couple of months ago, we heard first word of the R9 290X-X2, but at that time it was nothing more than a simple report stating that AMD was planning on making a dual-Hawaii XT graphics card. According to a new report from VR-Zone, that rumor is still standing. Next to this, the sometimes questionable website has stated that Asus is building the Ares III graphics card, which would feature -- you guessed it -- two of the GPUs found on the AMD Radeon R9 290X.
That Asus would be building such a graphics card isn't particularly surprising; in fact, it was just a matter of time. Whether it is actually happening is still questionable, but it shouldn't be all too surprising.
Asus' older Ares II graphics card
The Ares II was a graphics card that carried two of the GPUs found on the Radeon HD 7970 graphics card from AMD. It was a hybrid-cooled graphics card, which was cooled by both air and water. VR-Zone has stated that cooling for the card remains uncertain, though the PCB design will be largely the same.
Of course, the card will also be carrying 8 GB of GDDR5 memory, though that will still be 4 GB per GPU.
There was no word on what either AMD's reference solution or Asus' Ares III cards would cost, though the report did indicate that Asus will be showing off its solution at the Computex show, from June 3 through June 7, 2014.
It usually takes around 18A to actually trip a 15A breaker so with 80+Gold/Platinum PSUs, it should be possible to put one of these per dedicated 15A/115V circuit without too much trouble... but someone re-wiring their home specifically for high-power mining might as well wire for 230-240V and squeeze another 1-3% efficiency out of their PSU.
They could have thrown a curved ball and named it Eris instead - there is plenty of chaos to go around in the GPU market with miners buying off large chunks of the supply.
You would be surprised what the "average" miner is willing to do. A friend of mine had his electrical grid upgraded along with a secondary grid added to his house so he could run the miner he has separately. Probably to get a exact power cost.
This would be something they wont go for though mainly due to how hard it would be to mount it compared to a standard 290 X2 would be.
God of War. Not that stupid. I actually like it.
Poor Pluto. He never stood a chance.
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