guys just like get my hair like it's over
9,000 actually no it's it's 1,000 only
and it is the Aries 2 from ASUS if
you've been paying any attention to extremely high in gpus extremely limited
edition gpus and extremely fast gpus over the last few years you'll have
heard of the Mars the Mars 2 and the Aries which were the previous super uber
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
key ways we're familiar with seeing two top tier gpus on one card okay so this
is two 7970 GHz edition cards that are
fully unlocked and you can do whatever you want with them you want want to
tweak your voltages you want to tweak your fan speeds you want to do whatever you want you go ahead and do that
awesome awesome stuff okay what we haven't seen before is one of these
cards that check this out look at this look at this look at this see this case
has nine expansion slots but that is totally at 10 10 really 10 oh yeah I
forgot that okay has 10 expansion slots but you don't actually need that this is
only a two slot card eight PCI eight pin
or eight PC three 8 Pin PCI Express
power connectors liquid cooling so we have a double thick radiator here that's
running in pushpull that has the fans controlled by the GPU itself ASUS has
completely redesigned the digital vrm
okay so they've completely redesigned the vrm they have completely redesigned
the PCB there is nothing Bone St about this 2 797s are under there cooled by
the liquid in these tubes the air cooling uh fan there so there's an 80 mm
downdraft fan there that is blowing air into this gorgeous heat sink I mean
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
symbol you got your lighting effects here you got your gorgeous ASUS symbol
here so that 80mm fan down there has actually get this dedicated to cooling
the PCB the memory and the vrm so that's as much cooling as you'd see on a GTX
690 basically and it's not even cooling
the gpus at all because it's ASUS and
because we're just going to do it that way and so so so there you go they've
also got a full back plate the card so it looks absolutely gorgeous you got
your brushed aluminum finish on there now the question you might have about
this guys is how do I get one and the
answer right now is I have no idea and the other question you might have is if
I get one How will I know that it's a unique piece of video card art and the
answer is that there will be a laser inscribed serial number on the card
itself yours will be a one OFA kind this is the fastest card in the Dual GPU card
in the world I mean I think that pretty much makes it the the fastest card in
the world it is also fully as I said overclocking ready so even though
they're gigahertz edition cards you can maybe you can get another 50 100 mehz
maybe a little more 150z some somewhere in that range because it is liquid
cooled and so right so at stock it's already faster than a reference 690 and
guys remember that a reference 690 actually doesn't uh overclock that well
compared to what you're going to be able to do with a republic of Gamers Edition
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
going to have dual 79 70 GHz gpus you might as well hook it up to five or six
monitors so there's a switchable BIOS switch so you can either do five display
Affinity or six display Affinity off of a single card that runs in two slots
heaven forbid anyone put four of these cards in a system not that I'm actually
suggesting you do that because you'd have to rewire your house for the uh for
the power that you'd have to deliver to that PC but if anyone does do it please
do send me a send me a message on the Linus tips.com forum and I would love to
uh I'd love to fly out there and have a look at that system just for the sake of
like just touching it but uh this is a
pretty unique system we got some hyperx beasts in here we got some coolant water
coolant going on but more than anything else that video card is a centerpiece
and yeah it goes really well with Republic of Gamers components so we've
got an Rog motherboard in there we've got their Raider storage card which we
did a separate video about and I can't give you any details about whatsoever
and I think that pretty pretty much wraps it up guys do discuss this card in
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