Photos - ASUS MARS 4096MB

Photos - ASUS MARS 4096MB

On the next few pages we'll show you some photos. The images were taken at high resolution and then cropped and scaled down. The camera used was a Canon 450D 12 MegaPixel.

There's no review without a retail box shot here at Guru3D.com, this is what you can expect when you purchase the product, assuming you can find it :)

Inside you'll find the product which is carefully packaged in Styrofoam. You'll receive the basics, including power converter cables as the MARS required two 8-pin PCie power leads. other than that, driver CD, pouch manual, SPDIF cable and sub-d-DVI dongle.

So let's focus on the card itself. Very heavy, very sturdy. The casing is made out of a metal finish.

Being the dual-PCB version you have an advantage, you get a native HDMI connector. Both the DVI ports support simultaneous HDCP and are dual link capable. Dual link means you can hook up a high resolution monitor up to 2560 x 1600, and likely even higher.
A thing from the past is the 7-pin analog HDTV-out mini-din, and S-video connector, or YPrPb (component) or composite outputs. Well, the last time I used that connector was before 2004, so I made my peace with that.