ASUS Ares II Dual 7970 Video Card - Linus Tech Tips CES 2013
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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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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partner is
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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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