ASUS ROG ARES II HD 7970 GHz Edition x2 6GB in stock at Newegg

Tested the 2nd card today - Fail!!!! damn it's defective locks up the system under benchmark load every time :mad:
 
IronDoq said:
Pretty much a case of buy it and bask in the glory of the expensive Epeen. The card itself it a fantastic performer, but the price isn't justified. But, for each their own. TTL Customs has posted some great reviews, check them out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRy0cM2rLeE
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Agreed the card performs well. I don't care about the cost or Epeen (just satisfied with the final build) but I do highly value time, wasted over 5 hours setting up and verifying the 2nd card was defective. Hopefully Newegg will send out a replacement vs. credit me back the money. I'm not sure there are anymore available and I would not have bought the card and upgrade the power supply just to install one card.

The hell with this I ordered a 3rd card from the UK, well if Newegg comes through and send me a replacement I'll be selling one lol.

System setup before I had to ship one Ares 2 back:

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ComingUP said:
Cooler looks weak lol at it
How hot does it run OC at 60c plus lol
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Actually the cooler works well, quite and low temps (low 50's most of the time) when GPUs are overclocked but the stock fans crap; I replaced one on each radiators with a Slip Stream 120 and will swap the others two out as well with the SS 120s that are on order. I would have liked to be able to disconnect the hoses from the radiator to route them through the back of the case.

FurMark 1 min. benchmark results:

SCORE: 6254 points (104 FPS)

Submitted (anonymous mode) on February 19 2013, 5:04 am

Bench duration: 60 seconds
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
MSAA samples: 0
Window mode: fullscreen

Primary renderer: AMD Radeon HD 7970
Device ID: 0x1002 - 0x6798
GPU clock: 1286 MHz
Memory clock: 1762 MHz
Graphics drivers: Catalyst - 9.002.5-130109a-151810E-Asus 1-9-2013
GPU temperatures (start/end): 40°C / 57°C


Number of GPUs: 2
GPU0 - Vendor: 0x1002 - Device: 0x6798 - Max GPU temp: 57 °C - Max GPU load: 77 %
GPU1 - Vendor: 0x1002 - Device: 0x6798 - Max GPU temp: 54 °C - Max GPU load: 100 %

CPU: IntelR CoreTM i7-3930K CPU @ 3.20GHz
CPU speed: 4071 MHz
Operating system: Windows 7 64-bit build 7601 Service Pack 1
 
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Thats a pretty badass build my man, since money isn't a issue I think everything would look even better in the new 900D that will be on the shelves in the coming weeks. Ive seen some benchmarks where a single 7970 beats the Ares 2 where Asus is behind on getting the drivers worked out, wanted to know if you've noticed anything regarding driver issues especially since your running quad
 
limperatlinks said:
Thats a pretty badass build my man, since money isn't a issue I think everything would look even better in the new 900D that will be on the shelves in the coming weeks. Ive seen some benchmarks where a single 7970 beats the Ares 2 where Asus is behind on getting the drivers worked out, wanted to know if you've noticed anything regarding driver issues especially since your running quad
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Yes, the 900D is nice but I'm done with this system build, may be for the next one ;)
There's definitely room for improvement with the Ares 2 driver, my two GTX 680s were able to beat one Ares 2 card on several benchmarks and it's more prone to driver crashes then the GTX driver.
 
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