[DrNip]

ASUS Mars to sell for $1670 a piece
Written by Jon Worrel
Tuesday, 16 June 2009 08:36



A true collector's item for ultimate e-peen

We have no idea what the PR guys at ASUS were thinking on this one, but the graphics monstrosity known as ASUS Mars Limited Edition equipped with dual-GTX 285s is going to cost an arm, leg, hip, thigh and possibly a few other vitals. (I need a new liver.sub.ed.)

In a consistent stream of speculation prior to the announcement of the GPU at Computex, a few enthusiasts have been taking logical guesses that the price for the card should be a little more than double that of a single GTX 285 2GB model. It turns out that a majority of estimations were terribly wrong, as Scan.co.uk currently lists the card for £896.50 ($1461) and £1,030.98 including VAT ($1680).

To recap, buyers would be paying for a limited edition one in one-thousand card featuring two 55nm GTX 285 GPUs (G200-350-B3) at 648MHz each, 480 shaders (240 x 2) at 1476MHz, and 4GB (2 x 2GB) of 512-bit GDDR3 0.77ns at 2484MHz. Total peak fillrate out of the box would be roughly 41.47 Gigapixels-per-second and 2.12TFLOPS, allowing Far Cry 2 to run almost flawlessly in SLI at Quad-HD resolution.

There isn't much to say at this point, other than the fact that SLI owners are going to be the ultimate bearers of graphics processing bliss until ATI and Nvidia compete again for the 40nm high-end crown.

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SOURCE:
http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/14226/1/

GTFOH!!!!

[Buckeye]

WoW hefty price :(

They way these thing go is in a few months a new card will come out that will out perform this one. It does look like a nice card tho...

I so hate buying GPU's :(

[DrNip]

That is the price of a cheap car!

[Peen]

I bought a 1985 Honda accord 2 years ago still works great, It cost me half this!

[ReverendMaynard]

This card will clock like crap just like the current single 285's, possibly two of the worst cards that I've ever owned.

[hellcamino]

Today $1670...resale next year...$150....getting screwed by nvidia again...priceless!

[Chuchnit]

Originally Posted by hellcamino

Today $1670...resale next year...$150....getting screwed by nvidia again...priceless!

hahahaha ATI FTW!!

[ReverendMaynard]

word. If I hadn't had the urge to try Sli seeing that I swore never by a board based on an nV chipset..and the X58 opened that up, I'd be rolling some 4890's by now.

anyone want 2 - 285's? I'll trade straight up for two 4890's!

[punx223]

i run ati cards too considering where i work

[Jeffro64]

Ummmm....Yeah, I think they can keep them.