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OC3D Review: Asus ARES Full Review
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alexhull24
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Great review Tom, I thoroughly enjoyed reading through that.
It performs even better than I expected. There's even more headroom for OCing, impressive. Your conclusion hits the nail on the head though, fantastic product, but the price. It's not for everyone, in fact, it's only for a few.
Is this the future of the high end GPU market?
It performs even better than I expected. There's even more headroom for OCing, impressive. Your conclusion hits the nail on the head though, fantastic product, but the price. It's not for everyone, in fact, it's only for a few.
Is this the future of the high end GPU market?
Id say this is Asus own arena atm tbh, the other manu's making Extreme 5970's are weak as its just a stock card with more memory. The original 5970s biggest problem was power delivery and heat, this solves both. How XFX can charge a grand for their card amazes me as its nothing compaired to this.
Ill get off my soap box quick as Im in the mood for bashing!
Ill get off my soap box quick as Im in the mood for bashing!
Sunny Sahota
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Excellent review, really hope I can get one when I get back from Miami. Please may the GPU Gods keep one on the side for me lol
silenthill
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name='tinytomlogan' said:
great work tom, but I'm kind of disappointed the Sapphire Radeon HD 5970 4GB Toxic has the same performance and its spec is:
• Graphics processor 2 x ATI Radeon HD 5970, 900MHz
• Pipeline 2 x 1,600 stream processors (900MHz), 2 x 32 ROPs
• Memory 2 x 2GB GDDR5, 4.8GHz effective
• Bandwidth 2 x 153.6GB/sec, 256-bit interface
and runs cooler too and has more headroom for overclocking because of its three fan setup and retails in the UK for 969 £ but the positives for the ARES are:
it looks better
great package (suitcase+mouse+card)
its more quiet than the Toxic which is very important to some people
and the most important thing to me personally is that my two GTS 480 in sli scored 30990 in 3D Mark Vantage GPU benchmark compared to ARES (overclocked) which was 30301 and my GTX 480's were running at stock and physx was turned off and bear in mind I only paid 736 £ (2X368)for them but as you know tom I have to put up with the GTX 480 noise and ridicules temperatures.
l have read several reviews today about the ARES from different websites and I think you are the best overclock3d and most honest keep on the good work guys and best of luck to you tom.
Cheers dude, I dont rate the Saphire or the XFX cards, they were rushed through when they found out Asus had a non reference no holds barred card coming. The other brands are just rebadged reference cards tbh.
The ARES review was completed by both me and Bryan aka VonBlade, we both lost alot of sleep over the weekend while testing the cards, its been a big task to get it all ready including all the vids ect in under a week!
The ARES review was completed by both me and Bryan aka VonBlade, we both lost alot of sleep over the weekend while testing the cards, its been a big task to get it all ready including all the vids ect in under a week!
Sunny Sahota
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name='tinytomlogan' said:
any your hard work is greatly appreciated guys! well done on another great job
looking forward to the next 'FIRST' video lol
silenthill
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I think when it comes to 4way crossfire the bottleneck is the CPU the same problem happened when the GTX 480 was tested in 4way SLI it’s just too much cores for the CPU to send data to.
thestepster
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another amazing view mate this thing is totally prolific in price and performance!
douglatins
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You should have really OCd the 5970 to 5870 speeds :-o. And at least got the 900Mhz thats easy for them
name='douglatins' said:
We did in the original review but we cant have everything in our graphs.
douglatins
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Is it less ownage? At least close to the stock ares?
delusion77
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Completely destroyed everything in its path.
Kids in a sweetshop silenthill
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I’ve just read a review on a website that I don’t want to name because I don’t trust them which claims this:
The noise levels coming from the card are very high and loud, in idle the card will remain nicely quiet at 36 DBa, barely even hearable really.But once the two GPUs start to really heat up, the fan RPM will rise upwards fast. The card then reaches roughly 52 DBa measured at that 75cm distance. This is a big negative alright as a product of this caliber with this price tag should not require that much brute force fan activity at all. Loud, really loud.
Is this true tom?
The noise levels coming from the card are very high and loud, in idle the card will remain nicely quiet at 36 DBa, barely even hearable really.But once the two GPUs start to really heat up, the fan RPM will rise upwards fast. The card then reaches roughly 52 DBa measured at that 75cm distance. This is a big negative alright as a product of this caliber with this price tag should not require that much brute force fan activity at all. Loud, really loud.
Is this true tom?
name='silenthill' said:
Watch the video mate...........
silenthill
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name='tinytomlogan' said:Watch the video mate...........
tom you really look tired in the video this review must have taken a lot of effort, oh and I really like the on fire t-shirt it suits the video topic, lovely stuff
