ASUS Ares II Overkill3D Review

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The latest premium graphics card from ASUS is here, the Ares II, and as always we're going to the next level as we're doing Crossfire too. Read on.




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[Recon-UK]

Watched the Vids mate, nicely done with the entire review, and great cards!

Not my cup of tea with the whole AIO WC though..... i like modding, but to buy it like that, seems odd

 

[Gamepro105]

Love the video with bench marking. there great cards. now how do i afford them

 

[Ron5382]

Great Reviews Tom,

The card looks great and benches even better..That is a lot of CASH

I do miss the Crysis benchmark where you blow the hell out of the chopper

:lol:

Ron

 

[murphy7801]

Way to much cash but people want to pay for it but sure someone bought it and is happy.

 

[kejser11]

That does it! I´ll stick to Devil 13, where You do get the accessories at a much lower price and virtually the same power. I will NOT pay £500 - 600 for a metal suitcase worth around £50! Come again, Asus. You know better!!!

 

[DifferentClone]

That does it! I´ll stick to Devil 13, where You do get the accessories at a much lower price and virtually the same power. I will NOT pay £500 - 600 for a metal suitcase worth around £50! Come again, Asus. You know better!!!

It's alright saying that, and normally I would agree wholeheartedly with you. The price is not justified at all, and can be considered rather insulting to those who realise where the extra money is going. The Devil13 is certainly the better buy.

However after googling furiously for ~ 2 minutes I could not find a place that actually sold the Devil13, save for a few "new" ones on eBay, and of course you can see the flaw in siding with a product that is not readily available at this moment, and is labelled as 'discontinued' on Newegg.

That is a real shame, considering that the card was only revealed around the end of September last year....

Hopefully this AIO monstrosity does not stick, as it is clearly a huge hindrance to anyone who buys it and a disastrous design choice.

 

[Deadtroopers]

What's the power draw of a 1X card set up and 2X card set up please?
"You can't take it with you can you" as Ofan said, and not for any E-Peen thing, but for the hell of it...:yumyum:

 

[Deadtroopers]

Tom, shouldn't you be one shot, one kill on that bit of Metro by now?

 

[kejser11]

It's alright saying that, and normally I would agree wholeheartedly with you. The price is not justified at all, and can be considered rather insulting to those who realise where the extra money is going. The Devil13 is certainly the better buy.

However after googling furiously for ~ 2 minutes I could not find a place that actually sold the Devil13, save for a few "new" ones on eBay, and of course you can see the flaw in siding with a product that is not readily available at this moment, and is labelled as 'discontinued' on Newegg.

That is a real shame, considering that the card was only revealed around the end of September last year....

Hopefully this AIO monstrosity does not stick, as it is clearly a huge hindrance to anyone who buys it and a disastrous design choice.

Sorry You cant find it in UK. As I am Danish, I of course Look for it in Denmark. It is stille available in 4 different outlets, the cheapest of which is: http://www.sikkenemt.dk/index.php/hardware/grafikkort/radeonhd7970-58/powercolor-devil13-hd7990.html . The price is 8121,- dkr. which is similar to £945. Hope this is usefull to You.
P.S: That price is about 40% of an ARES II, so I will defenitely not go there...

 

[hoxlund]

maybe i missed it in the video but how did Farcry 3 do with the dual ares setup?

 

[Deadtroopers]

You missed it, youa also missed it in the write up, it has a page of its own so you don't have an excuse. 60fps but with so much microstutter it looked like 20fps. So the performance graph is actially misleading. The game doesn't know what to do with 4 cores, and it is the game, not the cards, not the drivers. If it was either of those Metro would fall over too but the game loves 4 cores. Kudos to the guys that coded Metro, if they can do it there is no excuse for any other big games studio to muck it up.

 

[o0bananaman0o]

tom mentioned that this would benifit from a 240rad and a cpu block. Absolutely love that idea, even for lower end gpu cards. an 80mmx120mm all-in-one watercooled gtx670 with a cpu block would make for an nice, clean sg05 build

 

[DeViLzzz]

Without mature drivers this review is all over the place in terms of performance. With AMD's history in putting out good drivers how long you looking at before it is really worth testing this card and seeing what it can do ?