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Guru3D.com » News » ASUS ROG ARES II gets tested and reviewed

ASUS ROG ARES II gets tested and reviewed

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 01/28/2013 05:55 PM | source: | 42 comment(s)
ASUS ROG ARES II gets tested and reviewed

A Dual-GPU monster, in Crossfire and on three screens with Eyefinity. We test and review the ASUS ARES II as single card and in Crossfire today. The ARES 2 is a dual-GPU Radeon HD 7970 graphics card. Fully customized with 3rd party Liquid cooling. We test the product one one and three monitors in Eyefinity with the hottest games like Battlefield 3, Sleeping Dogs, Far Cry 3, Medal of Honor Warfighter, Hitman Absolution and many more. Meet da beast !

You can read the entire Guru3D review right here.







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BLEH!
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#4512449 Posted on: 01/28/2013 06:33 PM
Hilbert you crazy, crazy, totally awesome man!

What a review. Good to see something destroying the 690 at last, even if it will melt your electricity meter with it's enormous power draw.

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#4512450 Posted on: 01/28/2013 06:37 PM
Finally a reply ! Gimme some love people, this was hard work, I need some sweet sweet LOViN!

Plays LL cool J


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#4512467 Posted on: 01/28/2013 06:53 PM
Awesome review Hilbert! Was pretty fun to read.

@BLEH!: You do get similar (somewhat less) power consumption from two separate 7970s. Power design here is beefed up, ala 7970 Lightning.

You could see that in many cases, ARESII ~ 2x single 7970 performance. And since 690 ~2x 670/680, this goes once again to prove that CF 7970s > SLI 680s, even at 1080p, and especially @1600p.

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#4512477 Posted on: 01/28/2013 07:04 PM
Some cool stuff but if I were a serious buyer, my first question would be, how do you fit the cooling system of these two cards into a case? Aside from what is likely a short lived bragging period, I would be inclined to wait for the 8000 series.

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#4512489 Posted on: 01/28/2013 07:11 PM
Finally a reply ! Gimme some love people, this was hard work, I need some sweet sweet LOViN!

Plays LL cool J


Best review I've read in a long time. Thanks boss!

@BLEH!: You do get similar (somewhat less) power consumption from two separate 7970s. Power design here is beefed up, ala 7970 Lightning.

You could see that in many cases, ARESII ~ 2x single 7970 performance. And since 690 ~2x 670/680, this goes once again to prove that CF 7970s > SLI 680s, even at 1080p, and especially @1600p.

I'm not sure how much power I draw TBH, I'm at stock volts for 1050 MHz (early reference cards), but I'm tempted to overvolt soon, see how far I can get. ASIC quality on my cards is mid 80s, whatever that equates to. CPU probably drinks as much as one 7970 does at the kinda clocks I run, I'm guessing about 800W for the whole system.

Some cool stuff but if I were a serious buyer, my first question would be, how do you fit the cooling system of these two cards into a case? Aside from what is likely a short lived bragging period, I would be inclined to wait for the 8000 series.

You'd need a case with 120 mm side fan mounts I guess, multiple ones, and be careful when taking the side off, either that or a custom case, which these things warrant.

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