OC3D Sneaky Peak! Asus Mars II - Dual GTX480
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silenthill
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name='steve30x' said:
I’m thinking of working overtime for the next few months or maybe selling the house furniture and even the dog and even that wouldn’t cover the bill, It’s just crazy the price of the MARS II IS going to be a world record.
silenthill
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name='thestepster' said:
Ok I’m at work and I installed the folding software on my work pc hope this doesn’t make it slow
alienware
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name='silenthill' said:
No chance of that mate, no chance at all..
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/3GB-...CI-E-20-(x16)-3GHz-GDDR5-GPU-575MHz-448-Cores
thestepster
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name='silenthill' said:
what spec is the pc mate?
silenthill
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name='thestepster' said:
It’s a amd 940 3GHz with a gtx 250
silenthill
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name='AlienALX' said:
I mean for gaming cards mate
thestepster
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name='silenthill' said:
that gpu will get some decent points, what spec of gts is it? if its a green version its gonna pull in about an average of 5k but if its a fully speed one it will on some wu's (57xx) will pull in upwards of 6500ppd
silenthill
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You’ve got to be joking those cards are ancient history now
silenthill
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I think it is a 512MB XFX GTS 250 Green
thestepster
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name='silenthill' said:
ah thats the slower one but mate just install EVGA precision/msi afterburner and up the clocks to the same as the normal one and it will run fine then ull get good points
alienware
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I actually thought about this last night. I dread to think what these cards are costing to produce.
Doing some maths I came up with the following regarding the Ares. The retail price is £1199. There were a thousand made. So that means a final selling price of £1199000.
I've been out of retail for a long time now but I do remember that the profit margins weren't very big selling PC hardware. So let's say OCUK are making a couple of hundred quid out of each unit, that leaves Asus with around £999 ish per unit. Reculating that to the thousand produced gives you nine hundred and ninety nine thousand pounds. Pretty much a million quid.
What I don't know of course is how much the cards cost to make. I have a rough idea of component costs of the main GPU and ramdacs as it's quite easy to work out, but the only black hole is how much Asus paid to have the custom PC and cooler designed. I bet it was a pretty bloody penny though ! Good R&D doesn't come cheap, that much I know from working in R&D for a speaker company. Once the R&D was done though component costs could be driven to almost nothing but the costs of R&D took years to recover and profit from.
I also know that any kind of billet CNC doesn't come cheap, and I would imagine copper machining costs even more. And of course the cooler and PCB are the parts on this that Asus will have to live and die by. The rest has all been taken care of by Nvidia (or in the case of the Ares ATI).
Sorry if that's boring.. I just find it intriguing.
Doing some maths I came up with the following regarding the Ares. The retail price is £1199. There were a thousand made. So that means a final selling price of £1199000.
I've been out of retail for a long time now but I do remember that the profit margins weren't very big selling PC hardware. So let's say OCUK are making a couple of hundred quid out of each unit, that leaves Asus with around £999 ish per unit. Reculating that to the thousand produced gives you nine hundred and ninety nine thousand pounds. Pretty much a million quid.
What I don't know of course is how much the cards cost to make. I have a rough idea of component costs of the main GPU and ramdacs as it's quite easy to work out, but the only black hole is how much Asus paid to have the custom PC and cooler designed. I bet it was a pretty bloody penny though ! Good R&D doesn't come cheap, that much I know from working in R&D for a speaker company. Once the R&D was done though component costs could be driven to almost nothing but the costs of R&D took years to recover and profit from.
I also know that any kind of billet CNC doesn't come cheap, and I would imagine copper machining costs even more. And of course the cooler and PCB are the parts on this that Asus will have to live and die by. The rest has all been taken care of by Nvidia (or in the case of the Ares ATI).
Sorry if that's boring.. I just find it intriguing.
silenthill
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You forgot the VAT which is 17.5% so 1199000X0.175= 209825£ pure profit that goes to the government so they can give it to the poor bankers in time of need
silenthill
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The Tories are going to put the VAT up to 20% by the end of this year so you can expect higher retail prices not that it will make any difference to us in Wales because everything is in a mess already
