Mumbai,The Republic of Gamers or ROG, as the name suggests, is a fraternity of gamers, crafting products and tools for their peers. ROG is made up of gaming and tuning enthusiasts, and they know exactly what the community craves and appreciates.
This tradition brought the world MARS, a huge gaming power monger with twinned, overclocked GPU cores and an excess of graphics pushing potential, all housed in a never before attempted style. ARES follows as the latest foray into unmitigated gaming exploration, pushing the boundaries of what can be achieved with finely-tuned yet raw power and an entire constellation of added features. Naturally, the ROG penchant for radical design has not gone amiss, as ARES lights up the gaming horizon with its spectacular looks.
Speaking about the launch, Mr. Vinay Shetty, Country Head - Components Business, ASUS (India) said We are very excited about the launch of ARES. It is a very high end VGA and so we are releasing it as a special limited edition card. The ARES after all is a true dual-Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire setup on a single PCB. The Radeon HD 5970 was / is the fastest single graphics card in the market, and the ASUS ARES would clearly offer more performance.
Charting the Destiny of Hardcore Gaming
ROG has plenty of pioneering spirit, evinced in ARES and its brazen shattering of convention. This new graphics card deploys two already-potent Radeon HD5870 cores running at 850MHz, optimizing their joint performance for up to 32% better than reference performance to attain heavenly output fit for mythology - hence the ARES moniker.
The astral design scheme belies overwhelming processing muscle. ARES has 3200 stream processors and a cosmic 4GB of GDDR5 RAM clocked at 1.2GHz. This is the kind of power gamers and hobbyists dream of, allowing even the most demanding applications to run fully unabridged while future-proofing for coming attractions, as it will be a long time before ARES finds itself taxed. It also serves as a superb anchor for overclocking aficionados building a benchmark machine, since the potential for tuning is enormous.
Cooling the Giant
Despite its experimental nature and mammoth processing reserve, the ARES design runs cool and quiet. A custom thermal solution assures this, with a 100mm fan that pushes six times the air mass described by reference. ROG has also implemented in ARES the recent ASUS move towards copper in cooling; slapping two outsized oxygen-free, all-copper heatsinks and no less than eight 8mm copper heat sinks on the board.
Combined, these guarantee ARES can banish scorching temperatures in its pursuit of reality-defining speed and performance - something eager overclockers are sure to embrace.
Noise is kept to a minimum with the synced fan blades and balanced fittings to eliminate vibration. Users can enjoy the performance offered here without having to worry about noisy distractions.
To Extremity and Beyond
No cuts, no downsizing, no compromise, and no nasty heat-related mishaps. ARES is the epitome of the hardcore gamers creed, mixing the best of many dimensions.
Its likewise a feat of design, with a look harking back to ROGs first dual GPU release. ARES takes this approach and upscales it for the new decade, showcasing its prodigious power in a futuristic package thats sure to become a much-vaunted collectible. This last point is aided by the fact that ROG is releasing ARES as a special limited edition, only available while supplies last.
For those keen on the excitement of gaming and performance tuning, there has never been a more thrilling time to venture beyond the frontier.
Specifications
Model: ARES/2DIS/4GD5
Graphics Engine: ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 graphics X2
Video Memory: 4GB GDDR5
Engine Clock: 850 MHz
Stream Processors: 1600x2=3200
Memory Clock: 4800MHz (1200MHz GDDR5)
Memory Interface: 256-bit x2
DVI Max. Resolution: 2560 x 1600
Bus Standard: PCI Express® 2.1
DVI Output: 1x native dual-link DVI-I
1x single-link DVI via HDMI to DVI adapter
HDCP compliant: YES
HDMI Output: YES, native
DisplayPort: YES, native
Software Bundled: ASUS utilities and driver
Notes:
- Card size 11 x 5 inches
- Special metal bracket and
- ROG gaming mouse bundled
- 8+8+6 pin power connectors required
Specifications are subject to change without prior notice. Please visit www.asus.com for up-to-date information.
Some additional details about the product:
Price: Rs. 1, 00, 000/- (MRP)
Warranty period: 3 years Limited Local Warranty
Notes to Editor
About ASUS
ASUS, the worlds top 3 consumer notebook vendor and the maker of the worlds best selling and most award winning motherboards, is a leading enterprise in the new digital era. ASUS designs and manufactures products that perfectly meet the needs of todays digital home, office and person, with a broad portfolio that includes motherboards, graphics cards, displays, desktop PCs, notebooks, netbooks, servers, multimedia, wireless solutions, networking devices and mobile phones. Driven by innovation and committed to quality, ASUS won 3,268 awards in 2009, and is widely credited with revolutionizing the PC industry with the Eee PC™. With a global staff of more than ten thousand people and a world-class R&D team of 3,000 engineers, the companys revenue for 2009 was US$7.5 billion. ASUS has been listed in BusinessWeeks InfoTech 100 for 12 years.
