GTX285 MARS REVIEW

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this thing is HUGE

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It's a 295, not a 285 :p

Looks insane though.
 
its so silly. gfx cards numbered now.. rofl.. hang on the wall or wat?
 
I took a quick look on Xtremesystems and apparently the 3 cards on the whole forum between two member are all overheating like mad.
 
That thing looks pimp, but does it cool well? I'd definitely consider one of these.
 
cost is not worth it IMO, its barely any better then a gtx295, and being so expensive, especially with the launch of next gen ati cards around the corner, It makes little to no sense to buy them.
 
100 watts higher than a standard GTX295. it's [h]ard but it's getting ridiculous. 2 of those cards in quad sli consume close to 900 watts under load. playing crisis for long periods = high eletric bill.
 
Murry said:
100 watts higher than a standard GTX295. it's [h]ard but it's getting ridiculous. 2 of those cards in quad sli consume close to 900 watts under load. playing crisis for long periods = high eletric bill.
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More like 460W for an entire system containing one of these cards, and from the wall as well meaning the actual draw from the PSU is much lower. I'd estimate about 300W per card for the actual power usage, not including any other components. Still a ton of power obviously, but considering the fact that each of these cards is equivalent to a pair of GTX285s in SLI, it's not surprising.
 
Well hypothetically if one were completely out of money after splurging on these and needed electricity savings... sell the oven? I would say the fridge but that case of Monster would be warm. Cold cuts and cereal...

As I listen to the dryer tumble... probably a lot of energy.

I'm also just wondering,,, with video cards this huge, will they someday be netbooks? I mean seriously, an entire little Acer isn't much bigger.
 
WarlordOne said:
Yeah, it does! I was reading through and technically something completly different. 2x 285s not a 295 (which is 2x260)
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Actually, a GTX 295 is 2x GTX 275.

GTX 260 has 216SP & 448bit DDR3 memory
GTX 275 has 240SP & 448bit DDR3 memory
GTX 295 has 480SP & 448bit DDR3 memory
 
You can buy TWO gtx 295 for the price of one mars 295. I'd say the former is better bang for the buck. Interesting end of line product but next gen will be faster and won't run as hot, noisy, or power hungry.
 
Who the hell would even buy such a card for even half price :rolleyes: I say that only because we are coming to the next generation VideoCards from both AMD and nVidia next couple of months. Now if this card came out 6+ months ago, or right at the GTX-285 launch I could sort of see the [H]ard freak spending the bucks on this, but not now.

I bet the new AMD 5870x2 dual GPU version will be close in performance I bet, and will only cost like $500. And nVidia will also have their GTX-395 dual GPU which will be even faster for like $500 too.
 
What a useless review. Call of Duty 4? seriously wtf. Only 3.2 Ghz on thier i7? Seriously wtf guys. Utter failure of a review.

For most people it's a bit much. But then again, it's a limited run promo card, nothing else.
 
1 Asus 295 Mars edition or 3 EVGA 295??? Which would you choose?
WTF is Asus thinking or better yet the geniuses buying it.
 
to kill the HW bot single card record of course.... what else 3dmark..... crysis
 
according to this review the drivers completely fuck it up especially when running two of them. only an idiot would blow their money on this thing. :rolleyes:

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2009/09/18/asus-rog-mars-quad-sli-review/1


While a single Mars performed well in S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Clear Sky and Crysis, the other games didn't like the Mars nearly as much. Dawn of War II and Call of Duty: World at War both ran slower on the Mars than on the significantly cheaper (and single-GPU, we might add) GeForce GTX 285, while the Mars didn't know what to do with the AA of Fallout 3. And don't even think about buying two of these cards and running them in SLI, unless you're just after epic folding scores. If you have just spent two grand on a pair of these cards, you’ll be devastated by the erratic and often slow performance you're seeing.
 
Can't the companies come up with something more useful than these Frankensteins, like maybe cooling solutions that are better than the reference designs on offer...
 
Wow, such an expensive card and they couldnt do a more crap cooler ? running 2 of theese u can heat up up your house rofl.
 
WarlordOne said:
Yeah, it does! I was reading through and technically something completly different. 2x 285s not a 295 (which is 2x260)
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GTX 295 is 2x275's.. thats how the GTX 275 was created.. you really thought nvidia spent money to create a card to perform against the 4890 at its released price point? no.. all they did was remove the second card from a gtx 295 and boom you have your self a gtx 275.. nvidia on the cheap when it comes to R&D..


the GTX 295 MARS is a part of history i guess.. but unless i was a millionaire theres no way id buy one of these things..


Matrices said:
Can't the companies come up with something more useful than these Frankensteins, like maybe cooling solutions that are better than the reference designs on offer...
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i think you have it the other way around.. the GTX 295 MARS is what the GTX 295 should of been from the start.. the Frankenstein card is the normal GTX 295.. which is a GTX 260 hybrid gone wrong and then some how gave birth to the gtx 275..
 
gtx295 and GTX 275 are not common with the GTX260...bit silly really.
The GTX285 simply produces too much heat for a dual card solution from what I can see.

I can however, see the point in the Mars though,...the fact remains that the 285 is the fastest single card solutions regardless of value...put 2 together and you have the fastest solution (until the HD5870 is properly reviewed and released)
 
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PlatinumPC said:
gtx295 and GTX 275 is not common with the GTX260...bit silly really.
The GTX285 simply produces too much heat for a dual card solution from what I can see.

I can however, see the point in the Mars though,...the fact remains that the 285 is the fastest single card solutions regardless of value...put 2 together and you have the fastest solution (until the HD5870 is properly reviewed and released)
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lol you sure about that? the gtx 295 and gtx 275 do not have anything in common?

so lets see.. GTX 295 GPU.. same GPU as the gtx 260 216 core 55nm which is the same GPU as the GTX 285.. only difference is that the GTX 285 has a 512bit memory bus and the GTX 260 has a 448bit memory bus.. so that would mean the GTX 295 448bit bus.. 1.9GB of ram.. divided by 2 would make that 896MB.. which would be a 2xGTX 260 216 core 55nm cards.. so the only thing the GTX 260 and GTX 295 do not have in common is?... Shaders.. the GTX 260 came with 192 and 216 while the GTX 295 came with 480 which would make it 240 per core which is what the GTX 280/285 came with..

so this all means the gtx 260 216 core 55nm has more in common with the GTX 275 and GTX 295 then ya thought..


/end rant
 
for $#%@ sake...the GTX 275 IS the GTX 295 in tandem...not the GTX 260 or GTX 285
Read...the GTX 295 and the GTX 275 are NOT the same as the GTX 260, end of story.

(facepalm)
 
PlatinumPC said:
for $#%@ sake...the GTX 275 IS the GTX 295 in tandem...not the GTX 260 or GTX 285
Read...the GTX 295 and the GTX 275 are NOT the same as the GTX 260, end of story.

(facepalm)
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well the gtx275 is just a gtx260 with faster clocks and the other 24sp/8tmu unlocked. the gtx295 is basically 2 gtx275 cards with gtx260 speeds. so you really could look at the gtx295 as also being 2 gtx260 cards with all the sp/tmu unlocked. remember too that the gtx295 came out before the gtx275 anyway. in reality they all are the same gpus with different speeds and locked or unlocked sp/tmu.
 
yeah like I was saying GTX 295 = 2 GTX 275's downclocked...not GTX 260's.
more TMU's and Stream processors than the GTX 260.
It's rather significant.
Otherwise we may have started saying that the 8800GTS was the same as the 8800GTX etc etc
 
PlatinumPC said:
yeah like I was saying GTX 295 = 2 GTX 275's downclocked...not GTX 260's.
more TMU's and Stream processors than the GTX 260.
It's rather significant.
Otherwise we may have started saying that the 8800GTS was the same as the 8800GTX etc etc
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but technically the gtx295 IS two gtx260 cards with sp/tmu cluster unlocked. it has the same clocks and memory specs as the gtx260 and came out before the gtx275 was even thought of. so you can call the gtx295 either 2 gtx260 cards with unlocked sp/tmu cluster or you can call it 2 gtx275 cards with slower specced memory and lower clocks. its the same difference either way.
 
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