ASUS Mars II review

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Here, two photos of the GTX 590 with the fan shroud removed. Check it out, a totally customized PCB. That's some serious choice in components right here. Very impressible. you can see the two GTX 580 GPUs, the chip in the middle is a bridge chip (NF200) so the two GPUs can communicate directly with each other instead of flooding the X16 PCIe express slot. Surrounding the GPUs are the memory ICs and then we see all the smaller stuff, like capacitors, voltage regulators, resistors and so on.

ASUS is using Samsung GDDR5 memory ICs with part number K4G10325FE-HC04. These are rated at 1250MHz (5000MHz effective), ASUS is running them at 4000MHz so there's tweaking room left.

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You can see the two vapor chamber coolers in the upper photo, this is based off ASUS proprietary DirectCU cooling technology. Admittedly the cooling performance is really impressive on this product, especially since it keep the card at acceptable noise levels.

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Sideways then, seen from down under, shrimps and the barbeeh matey, shrimps -- here you can get a good idea of how fat this thing is, 3-slot cooling is rather gigantic, let me just say ginormous here. It's a truly lovely design though, it's a great card to look at alright. But at 100 EUR per inch you can expect some quality stuff, right?

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