since I uploaded my unboxing only yesterday there's been a ton of demand
to do at least a couple benchmarks maybe some overclocking on the assus Aries so
here it is installed in a core i7 test platform I'm running oops I'm tripping
all over things I'm running 6 gigs of RAM over there I'm running a core i7
980x 6 Core Extreme Edition processor
and the assus Aries so I've got my three
graphics card PCI Express power connectors plugged in two of these are
eight pin one of them is a six pin so the other two pins are just hanging off
the edge there if you listen you can hear that
the fan is actually quite silent
now I would love to use the ASUS smart
doctor software and they'll probably fix this later but you can see right now it
comes up with an error that says cannot find ASUS graphics card um so I'm G to
be using afterburner so that one detects it properly graphics card assus Aries
driver version latest Catalyst drivers so just to give you some idea of how
this card runs Sorry my phone's going off there uh we're going to go ahead and
okay so I'll let you listen to it at uh at default Auto speed so this is with
the fan speed at 20% and now I'm going to turn the fan
speed up to 100 just to get you give you some idea how high this thing can
go pretty impressive I I'll be surprised
if you can actually even hear me very well that's right up there with uh GTX
480 levels of uh noise production there is a significant amount of air flow
coming out of either side of this card uh very very very
significant anyway let's turn that back to
Auto there we go it ramps right back down so we're going to run 3D Mark
Vantage see how loud it actually gets during The Benchmark here and what kind
of scores we get out of this particular card and then we're going to overclock
it and see how much we can improve it beyond
that during The Benchmark run this is about what it sounds like uh the ambient
temperatures in my office here are 26° C and I'm taking that temp from
right in front of the graphics C so you can easily compare that sound
level to the one that I had before with
uh with the card running at Auto at idle at the desktop as well as the 100% load
it's not uh not rively loud although it is definitely definitely Audible and
this is at a non overclocked setting okay the benchmark's done so at stock
speeds with a 4 GHz core i7 980x CPU
actually it's 3.99 something High not quite 4 GHz
anyway we get about 30,000 marks in 3D
marks so that's the performance preset and let's have a look at what we're
seeing in terms of GPU temperatures so GPU 1 Peaks at around
67° and my room is running at about just
turn my temp prob back on give it a
minute my room's running a little oh it's running give it a sec running about
the same it's running at about 26° so we see it go as high as about 40 a 40°
Delta up as high as 68 or so here uh GPU
2 runs quite a bit cooler actually about
10° cooler on GPU 2 um what I'm getting
guing is that this is GPU 1 and this is GPU 2 because you can see the air flow
comes out completely unrestricted from this side of the card but over here
you've got this PCI back plate uh blocking it so you don't get as much uh
as much air being vented out that way now in terms of everything else you can
see GPU usage is as high as 99% on both
and GPU fan speed oh that's interesting it doesn't seem to
detect uh fan speed
correctly in after Bur here for some
reason because I know it went up higher than that let me see if I can
um oh yeah no fan speed's just not um I
can't even adjust it now I just did that a minute ago
anyway I'll be back with more overclocking benchmarks thank you for
checking out my video blog and uh I'll be updating you shortly actually oh here
I should explain this the the 1.5 GHz is just because of uh speed step it goes up
to 4 GHz as soon as you do anything here
example there you go