ASUS Ares ATI Radeon 5870 X2 Limited Edition Graphics Card 3D Mark Vantage Test Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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823 words · ~4 min read
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since I uploaded my unboxing only yesterday there's been a ton of demand
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to do at least a couple benchmarks maybe some overclocking on the assus Aries so
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here it is installed in a core i7 test platform I'm running oops I'm tripping
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all over things I'm running 6 gigs of RAM over there I'm running a core i7
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980x 6 Core Extreme Edition processor
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and the assus Aries so I've got my three
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graphics card PCI Express power connectors plugged in two of these are
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eight pin one of them is a six pin so the other two pins are just hanging off
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the edge there if you listen you can hear that
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the fan is actually quite silent
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now I would love to use the ASUS smart
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doctor software and they'll probably fix this later but you can see right now it
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comes up with an error that says cannot find ASUS graphics card um so I'm G to
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be using afterburner so that one detects it properly graphics card assus Aries
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driver version latest Catalyst drivers so just to give you some idea of how
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this card runs Sorry my phone's going off there uh we're going to go ahead and
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okay so I'll let you listen to it at uh at default Auto speed so this is with
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the fan speed at 20% and now I'm going to turn the fan
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speed up to 100 just to get you give you some idea how high this thing can
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go pretty impressive I I'll be surprised
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if you can actually even hear me very well that's right up there with uh GTX
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480 levels of uh noise production there is a significant amount of air flow
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coming out of either side of this card uh very very very
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significant anyway let's turn that back to
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Auto there we go it ramps right back down so we're going to run 3D Mark
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Vantage see how loud it actually gets during The Benchmark here and what kind
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of scores we get out of this particular card and then we're going to overclock
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it and see how much we can improve it beyond
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that during The Benchmark run this is about what it sounds like uh the ambient
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temperatures in my office here are 26° C and I'm taking that temp from
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right in front of the graphics C so you can easily compare that sound
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level to the one that I had before with
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uh with the card running at Auto at idle at the desktop as well as the 100% load
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it's not uh not rively loud although it is definitely definitely Audible and
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this is at a non overclocked setting okay the benchmark's done so at stock
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speeds with a 4 GHz core i7 980x CPU
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actually it's 3.99 something High not quite 4 GHz
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anyway we get about 30,000 marks in 3D
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marks so that's the performance preset and let's have a look at what we're
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seeing in terms of GPU temperatures so GPU 1 Peaks at around
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67° and my room is running at about just
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turn my temp prob back on give it a
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minute my room's running a little oh it's running give it a sec running about
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the same it's running at about 26° so we see it go as high as about 40 a 40°
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Delta up as high as 68 or so here uh GPU
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2 runs quite a bit cooler actually about
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10° cooler on GPU 2 um what I'm getting
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guing is that this is GPU 1 and this is GPU 2 because you can see the air flow
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comes out completely unrestricted from this side of the card but over here
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you've got this PCI back plate uh blocking it so you don't get as much uh
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as much air being vented out that way now in terms of everything else you can
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see GPU usage is as high as 99% on both
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and GPU fan speed oh that's interesting it doesn't seem to
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detect uh fan speed
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correctly in after Bur here for some
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reason because I know it went up higher than that let me see if I can
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um oh yeah no fan speed's just not um I
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can't even adjust it now I just did that a minute ago
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anyway I'll be back with more overclocking benchmarks thank you for
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checking out my video blog and uh I'll be updating you shortly actually oh here
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I should explain this the the 1.5 GHz is just because of uh speed step it goes up
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to 4 GHz as soon as you do anything here
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example there you go