RoG 5970 (and 5970 4GB cards in general)

CMDR Steve-O · **Posted:** Fri Feb 26, 2010 9:44 am

http://semiaccurate.com/2010/02/25/asus-readying-rog-ares/

Interesting bits are the 850MHz clock (125MHz more than normal, which is a hugh OC coming right from the manufacturer), and the 2.5 slot cooling Fighter Jet look.

Alos uses 4GB of ram (!) and 2 8-pin and 1 6-pin connector. This is a custom job by Asus so I'm guessing it's 2 regular 5870 cores instead of half-binned gimped @ 5850 core speeds (or 5890 parts!). Only miff is that it comes with an DVI/HDMI/DP output instead of DVI/DVI/miniDP config.

If I was going to upgrade from a 5870, it would be to this beasty! I'd like to see a water cooling block for it as well. This looks to be a 1000$ video card, after taxes. Also, not the lack of a crossfire bridge thingy.

CMDR Steve-O · **Posted:** Mon Mar 01, 2010 2:35 pm

Yeah there's a Crossfire bridge, the card is just so damn big it makes it look too small.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=245988&highlight=asus+ati&page=6

Holy crap, that board has to be 8" high, yowsers!

Phonix · **Posted:** Mon Mar 01, 2010 2:39 pm

Saw a youtube video last night of 2 of these destroying Crysis...

drumsonly2002 · **Joined:** Sat Jan 09, 2010 12:09 pm **Posts:** 25

What kind of power supply would you need to run that and an over clocked i7 930 in a case full of cooling fans? Would a Corsair HX 750 work? Can something like this be gotten through Mystery Bytes?

CMDR Steve-O · **Posted:** Thu Mar 04, 2010 8:57 am

I'm sure a 750W PSU would be fine, as long as you had all the proper power connectors.

Dr_BenD_over · **Posted:** Thu Mar 04, 2010 9:02 am

I wouldn't count on actually being able to find one of these anywhere for a price a sane person would pay.

CMDR Steve-O · **Posted:** Thu Mar 04, 2010 9:08 am

Sanity is highly overrated IMO.

drumsonly2002 · **Joined:** Sat Jan 09, 2010 12:09 pm **Posts:** 25

Sanity is for those who think upgrading to a Pentium 486 is a good idea.

Dr_BenD_over · **Posted:** Wed Apr 14, 2010 8:18 am

http://www.pcper.com/comments.php?nid=8621

A wee bit power hungry me thinks.

Sapphires 5970 4GB Toxic is over at Tweaktown, running at 900/1200 :shock:

http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/3230/ ... age+RSS%29

Hali_Newf · **Posted:** Wed Apr 14, 2010 8:36 am

Power hungry yes agreed - but also consider whats on that pcb, two true 5870 gpu's and 4 GB of GDDR5. Also the single most fastest card ever benched. Way to go ATI.

It's crushing everything. Wonder how many kidney's one has to sell to own one.

CMDR Steve-O · **Posted:** Wed Apr 14, 2010 9:23 am

900MHz core stock, excellent. Not that hitting 900MHz is hard at all on any 5870. 500W+ probable power draw in real life is an attention getter, but the idle numbers are fabu.

Yeah, but can it play Crysis? Hopefully in the full review they throw some eyefinity at it, any maybe some Fermi SLI (if they actually have 2). I'd like to see the power draw compared to 2 5870's in xfire @900MHz a pop and GTX480(TRI)SLI (if it doesn't melt dow - hah I never get tired of that).

The most important question is...

Dr_BenD_over · **Posted:** Wed Apr 14, 2010 9:27 am

Hali_Newf wrote:

Power hungry yes agreed - but also consider whats on that pcb, two true 5870 gpu's and 4 GB of GDDR5. Also the single most fastest card ever benched. Way to go ATI.

It's crushing everything. Wonder how many kidney's one has to sell to own one.

Not quite, it's clocked lower than Sapphire's

CMDR Steve-O · **Posted:** Wed Apr 14, 2010 10:20 am

Changed the title to reflect current direction.

Dr_BenD_over · **Posted:** Mon Jul 26, 2010 8:09 am

HWC got an Ares to review

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/ha ... eview.html

Quote:

Cons:

- Price / performance ratio
- Can’t compete with two HD 5870 cards in most situations
- Still suffers from Crossfire’s shortcomings
- Quite loud when under load
- Including Smart Doctor with a $1200 card is a massive faux pas
- High idle power consumption

RoG 5970 (and 5970 4GB cards in general)

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