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Asus Ares Quad-fire review

Thanks for the link I haven't gone through all the benchmarks yet but look at this.

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So ATI have Quadfire issues do they? LOL, that's about 80% scaling across 4 GPUS.

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About 67% scaling here on 4 GPU's.
 
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This review site sucks in my opinion as it uses far to many old games that don't need the power of new gpu's. I just had a look through the benchmarks choosing the newer games and the most demanding older games and from what i seen scaling was very good at 2560x1600 from quadfire. They really need to drop a lot of these old less demanding games from there review list as they really tell you nothing about todays top gpu's.
 
As a user who runs 2 x Sapphire 5970 4gig cards clocked at 1000mhz each in quadfire, I can honestly say in modern games going from 2 gpu's to 3 gpu's the scaling varies between around 60% and 85%. At least in the games I tested at the time. Going from the 3rd to 4th gpu, as expected it's less, about a 30%-35% increase but still a far cry from the terrible scores quadfire originally had about a year ago. Overall it's faster then Trifire too as I tested a 5970 4gig and 5870 2gig in trifire also. Whether it's worth the money depends on the individual. I have to say the Sapphires are loud, at 100% the same as a reference 5970 at around 45%. With earphones its ok. THe problem is the fans run at 100% once the gpu's get to around 55 degrees, which is why the temps have never gone over 66%. Afterburner sems fidly with it too.
 
It's worth mentioning if you run 2 of these cards in quadfire with a slot between them for airflow and you install a soundcard in that slot (e.g. evga classified, asus rampage III), this kill ariflow to the gpu fan if the card is long enough (eg Asus Xonar ST or STX). This also causes weird turbulence effects. As a result I'm lucky I have an EVGA board with the top pci-e1x slot dedicated to sound. However I'm stuck with a sucky X-Fi over the stupid chipset sink.
 
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bigjimmyauk said:
Quoted from the site maybe you should read everything before posting such rubbish


ARES + HD 5870: This setup works considerably better. Both cards are clocked at the same frequencies of 850 / 1200 which wastes no clock cycles. There is still the difference in memory size (HD 5870 has only 1 GB), but with only a few benchmarks out there that profit from the extra memory, the losses are rather small. As result the 3-GPU combination of ARES + HD 5870 is actually faster on average than the 4-GPUs of ARES + HD 5970. If you really want to run ARES in a CrossFire setup but can't afford two ARES cards this is the sweet spot to go for.


My 2 pence for these cards to even be considered your either very nutz or running massive eyefinity resolutions
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You do get excited don’t you? I honestly picked those two benchmarks at as they were two most demanding games on list of games they tested and yes I did go back and looked through all the other benchmarks including Quake and Far Cry. I was just impressed that they got some decent scaling over 4 GPU cores, I just wonder how much of the unused power is down to CPU bottleneck and drivers.
 
Freddie1980 said:
You do get excited don’t you? I honestly picked those two benchmarks at as they were two most demanding games on list of games they tested and yes I did go back and looked through all the other benchmarks including Quake and Far Cry. I was just impressed that they got some decent scaling over 4 GPU cores, I just wonder how much of the unused power is down to CPU bottleneck and drivers.
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:D yeah i'm an excitable person

I think most of the performance was due to bottlenecks happening i mean 4gpu's and all that memory flying around is a lot to cope with. I bet it's pretty crippling. I'm wondering if they would fair any better in a 6 core rig(hoping a good review site trys it)
 
I would imagine the scaling gets worse as cards are added due to bottlenecks. I wouldn't be surprised it the scaling is better with say 4x5750s or something like that.
 
Flanno said:
As a user who runs 2 x Sapphire 5970 4gig cards clocked at 1000mhz each in quadfire, I can honestly say in modern games going from 2 gpu's to 3 gpu's the scaling varies between around 60% and 85%. At least in the games I tested at the time. Going from the 3rd to 4th gpu, as expected it's less, about a 30%-35% increase but still a far cry from the terrible scores quadfire originally had about a year ago. Overall it's faster then Trifire too as I tested a 5970 4gig and 5870 2gig in trifire also. Whether it's worth the money depends on the individual. I have to say the Sapphires are loud, at 100% the same as a reference 5970 at around 45%. With earphones its ok. THe problem is the fans run at 100% once the gpu's get to around 55 degrees, which is why the temps have never gone over 66%. Afterburner sems fidly with it too.
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Could you change the clocks in the profiles? That should make them idle a bit cooler. :)
 
Idle temps or even clocks are not the issue..mine idle at 37 and 32 degrees. With afterburner off. And with afterburner on and all 4 cores clocked to 1ghz, neither of them get over 66 degrees under load which is very impressive. What the card needs ar fan profiles, not low speed, medium speed and full speed which is what it appears to have (talking about the sapphire 5970 here now). But even at full speed it's about as loud as a 5870 at 45%. So it's very subjective. Also Afterburner works very funny with it as it always reads the fans working at 30%. It also causes major microstuttering in the Heaven benchmark even with powerplay disabled. It would be easy to mess with the CCC profiles and use rpm numbers instead I suppose. I don't bother now as I use earphones and dont hear the fans much when gaming. I'm surprised the Asus is such a beat when it comes to noise. Glad I didn't hold off for it now.
 
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