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ASUS Working on MARS II Dual GTX 480 Graphics Accelerator

'so we took an ARES, made it a bit taller and put on a couple of those big copper heatsinks we had on the ARES, but there's a load more fins, they're twice as tall and they're made of pure silver because copper wasn't good enough, oh and we're using a special 120mm 6000rpm fan on it which has 100x the airflow of the fan on the ARES'

this is what I expect from ASUS
 
This is bordering on ridiculous, cooling 1 480 is hard enough, for the wattage and heat requirement why not bolt 3 5870's together?? The ares was pointless enough -_-
 
Razor Time said:
Nah, not at their prices. :eek:
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I don't really understand why they set the price so high, it's not like it actually costs them that much more to make.

One thing I'd like to know is how come these dual chip cards can utilise all of the RAM. Does one GPU connect to all of the RAM? In my head that's the only way it makes sense.
 
wolvers69 said:
I don't really understand why they set the price so high, it's not like it actually costs them that much more to make.

One thing I'd like to know is how come these dual chip cards can utilise all of the RAM. Does one GPU connect to all of the RAM? In my head that's the only way it makes sense.
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cost of designing it is a fair bit.

its 1.5GB to each gpu. it really is just internal sli.
 
wolvers69 said:
So what makes it different to two separate cards that allows it to use all 3gb then?
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you've lost me? it all depends on what game/application is using it.

i never head of them using the ram more then normal sli?

remember in chats that it may be using 3GB where as a single one may use 1.5GB in sli but there's still another one using another 1.5GB

1.5 + 1.5 = 3GB
 
f12f12 said:
you've lost me? it all depends on what game/application is using it.

i never head of them using the ram more then normal sli?

remember in chats that it may be using 3GB where as a single one may use 1.5GB in sli but there's still another one using another 1.5GB

1.5 + 1.5 = 3GB
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not how it works, with dual cards it's 1.5GB + 1.5GB = 1.5GB

everything in the memory has to be the same on both cards, unless somehow you could make a crossfire connector which was also a memory controller and disabled the inbuilt memory controller then figure out how to get the CMT to work with GPU's, then you could have the 3GB
 
no it is literally taking two gtx480's and putting them on once pcb. the only addition is a pcie bridge.

overall the card has 3GB but its 1.5GB to each gpu. the memory is not able to be shared.
 
I'll be shocked if it's not tri slot at least - most likely it'll have it's own water loop.
 
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