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guys just like get my hair like it's over

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9,000 actually no it's it's 1,000 only

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and it is the Aries 2 from ASUS if

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you've been paying any attention to extremely high in gpus extremely limited

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edition gpus and extremely fast gpus over the last few years you'll have

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heard of the Mars the Mars 2 and the Aries which were the previous super uber

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Flagship cards from ASUS welcome to Tech tips at CES 2013 our trip to the show

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linkis now this one differentiates itself from the others in a couple of

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key ways we're familiar with seeing two top tier gpus on one card okay so this

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is two 7970 GHz edition cards that are

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fully unlocked and you can do whatever you want with them you want want to

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tweak your voltages you want to tweak your fan speeds you want to do whatever you want you go ahead and do that

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awesome awesome stuff okay what we haven't seen before is one of these

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cards that check this out look at this look at this look at this see this case

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has nine expansion slots but that is totally at 10 10 really 10 oh yeah I

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forgot that okay has 10 expansion slots but you don't actually need that this is

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only a two slot card eight PCI eight pin

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or eight PC three 8 Pin PCI Express

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power connectors liquid cooling so we have a double thick radiator here that's

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running in pushpull that has the fans controlled by the GPU itself ASUS has

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completely redesigned the digital vrm

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okay so they've completely redesigned the vrm they have completely redesigned

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the PCB there is nothing Bone St about this 2 797s are under there cooled by

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the liquid in these tubes the air cooling uh fan there so there's an 80 mm

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downdraft fan there that is blowing air into this gorgeous heat sink I mean

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that's one of the other things about Republic of gamer stuff is you put it in your system and it feels like a status

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symbol you got your lighting effects here you got your gorgeous ASUS symbol

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here so that 80mm fan down there has actually get this dedicated to cooling

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the PCB the memory and the vrm so that's as much cooling as you'd see on a GTX

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690 basically and it's not even cooling

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the gpus at all because it's ASUS and

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because we're just going to do it that way and so so so there you go they've

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also got a full back plate the card so it looks absolutely gorgeous you got

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your brushed aluminum finish on there now the question you might have about

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this guys is how do I get one and the

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answer right now is I have no idea and the other question you might have is if

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I get one How will I know that it's a unique piece of video card art and the

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answer is that there will be a laser inscribed serial number on the card

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itself yours will be a one OFA kind this is the fastest card in the Dual GPU card

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in the world I mean I think that pretty much makes it the the fastest card in

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the world it is also fully as I said overclocking ready so even though

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they're gigahertz edition cards you can maybe you can get another 50 100 mehz

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maybe a little more 150z some somewhere in that range because it is liquid

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cooled and so right so at stock it's already faster than a reference 690 and

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guys remember that a reference 690 actually doesn't uh overclock that well

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compared to what you're going to be able to do with a republic of Gamers Edition

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card I want you to come around here and have a look at the back if you're going to have six gigs of RAM and if you're

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going to have dual 79 70 GHz gpus you might as well hook it up to five or six

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monitors so there's a switchable BIOS switch so you can either do five display

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Affinity or six display Affinity off of a single card that runs in two slots

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heaven forbid anyone put four of these cards in a system not that I'm actually

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suggesting you do that because you'd have to rewire your house for the uh for

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the power that you'd have to deliver to that PC but if anyone does do it please

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do send me a send me a message on the Linus tips.com forum and I would love to

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uh I'd love to fly out there and have a look at that system just for the sake of

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like just touching it but uh this is a

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pretty unique system we got some hyperx beasts in here we got some coolant water

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coolant going on but more than anything else that video card is a centerpiece

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and yeah it goes really well with Republic of Gamers components so we've

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got an Rog motherboard in there we've got their Raider storage card which we

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did a separate video about and I can't give you any details about whatsoever

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and I think that pretty pretty much wraps it up guys do discuss this card in

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