ASUS MARS 295 Limited Edition

alex24 · 28 May 2009 at 14:38

Just saw this and thought I'd share it with you:

ASUS has just designed a new monster graphics card that breaks the mold for reference design GeForce GTX 295, called the ASUS MARS 295 Limited Edition. The card, although retains the name "GeForce GTX 295", same device ID, and is compatible with existing NVIDIA drivers, has two huge innovations put in by ASUS, which go far beyond being yet another overclocked GeForce GTX 295: the company used two G200-350-B3 graphics processors, the same ones that make the GeForce GTX 285. The GPUs have all the 240 shader processors enabled, and also have the complete 512-bit GDDR3 memory interface enabled. This dual-PCB monstrosity holds 32 memory chips, and 4 GB of total memory (each GPU accesses 2 GB of it). Apart from these, each GPU system uses the same exact clock speeds as the GeForce GTX 285: 648/1476/2400 MHz (core/shader/memory).

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Nice to see something unique from a nvidia card for once, certainly should be one to look out for on the benchmarks. It's a limited release, so I doubt we'll see it much, if at all over here. Hate to think how much this will retail for though if it did.

Quad-SLI is possible and it's compatible with the current drivers! That sort of setup probably uses as much power as a small country though.

HeX · 28 May 2009 at 14:42

OM NOM NOM

:eek:

reflux · 28 May 2009 at 14:44

The cooler looks like something off Star Trek!

Fenris · 28 May 2009 at 14:50

4Gb?

Blimey thats a stonker.

psychas · 28 May 2009 at 14:55

should be called 297gx2 or something :rolleyes:

only 1000 of them going to be made probably 500£ price tag

titaniumx3 · 28 May 2009 at 15:11

Two of those in quad sli will surely herald a golden age of posperity for mankind.

LoadsaMoney · 28 May 2009 at 15:14

Dropped the ball there, could have had an extra £100+ or so if they renamed it :/

psychas · 28 May 2009 at 15:16

^ true as well these are 285 slapped together not like current 295gtx are two 275 glued.

does it say what connectors u need to power it probably 2x8 pin

elite.ire · 28 May 2009 at 15:21

LoadsaMoney said:
Dropped the ball there, could have had an extra £100+ or so if they renamed it :/

only 1000 being made, your going to have to pay redicilious money to get ur hands on one imo

psychas said:
^ true as well these are 285 slapped together not like current 295gtx are two 275 glued.

does it say what connectors u need to power it probably 2x8 pin

ye 2x 8pin

95thrifles · 28 May 2009 at 15:22

looks good, why only quad SLI? why not hex SLI? using tri SLI board with each card already dual SLI 3x2=6 hex SLI

elite.ire · 28 May 2009 at 15:24

probs only 1 sli port per card, making it a max of quad sli, same as the gtx 295

Rroff · 28 May 2009 at 15:25

Heh looks like each one will be individually numbered

95thrifles · 28 May 2009 at 15:27

elite.ire said:
probs only 1 sli port per card, making it a max of quad sli, same as the gtx 295

ah yeah just seen that loking at pics, D'Oh

layte · 28 May 2009 at 15:29

Two full fat GTX285's on a single card? Colour me interested.

BeeP · 28 May 2009 at 15:34

That is Sexeeee!!

Happy · 28 May 2009 at 15:38

Awesome, shame it's a limited run though they could easily shift more.

rapid64k · 28 May 2009 at 15:42

Very nice indeedy. :eek:

Senture · 28 May 2009 at 16:09

Did you see the clock rates they got from that sandwich monster? wow that's impressive :eek:

Rroff · 28 May 2009 at 16:35

Happy said:
Awesome, shame it's a limited run though they could easily shift more.

Not that its going to happen... but drop the price down to £300 and they'd shift as many as they could make imo. Unfortunatly I'd be unsuprised to see it much closer to £600-700 than that.

PhillyDee · 28 May 2009 at 16:39