ASUS Mars GPU weds twin GeForce GTX 285s, might just melt your face

You into frame rates? No, we mean are you frickin' bonkers over watching your rig hit triple digits in a Crysis timedemo? If you're still nodding "yes," have a gander at what'll absolutely have to be your next buy. The ASUS Mars 295 Limited Edition is quite the unique beast, rocking a pair of GTX 285 chips that are viewed by Windows as a GeForce GTX 295. All told, you're looking at 240 shader processors, a 512-bit GDDR3 memory interface, 32 total memory chips and 4GB of RAM. Amazingly, the card is totally compatible with existing drivers and is Quad-SLI capable, and if all goes to plan, it'll actually peek its head out at Computex next week. Rest assured, we'll do everything we can to touch it.

[darkNiGHTS Posted May 29th 2009 12:01PM]

Go ASUS! One groundbreaking product after the next.

[blanketman22 Posted May 29th 2009 12:12PM]

cool

[KAL326 Posted May 29th 2009 12:16PM]

I have heard rumor of single PCB 295s being the reason that 295 are so hard to get nowadays, however this is a nice surprise as well.

[(Unverified) Posted May 29th 2009 12:33PM]

This take me down memory lane when I spent a cool grand on the Quantum3D's Obsidian X-24 back in the 3dfx days.

[richb93 Posted May 29th 2009 12:48PM]

+1 Internets for you my friend.

[technomania Posted May 31st 2009 7:10PM]

Whoa now, 24 megabytes of RAM?!?!? BLAZING!
Too bad those Voodoo2's made every game look like ass...had two 12MB boards with the old school VGA loop myself.

[(Unverified) Posted May 29th 2009 12:39PM]

*correction Intel Lynnfield.....not Lynnhaven lol got confused with the Havendale series...also I guess you could use a Westmere CPU.

[Hackettman Posted May 29th 2009 12:41PM]

Mmmmm delicious......

[sharpie Posted May 29th 2009 12:42PM]

It looks small. And by 'small' I mean it could probably crush a rhino. Yep.

[sonny8988 Posted May 29th 2009 12:58PM]

It loos like a VHS Tape

[(Unverified) Posted May 29th 2009 1:08PM]

You seem to be lost. The VHS comments are up there ^

[m1cr050ft Posted May 29th 2009 1:35PM]

the most expensive VHS you will ever see. haha

[Oli D Posted May 29th 2009 1:10PM]

Quad SLI with this... Thats disgusting
16Gb VRAM
960 Shader Cores

[m1cr050ft Posted May 29th 2009 1:33PM]

Beautiful.

[(Unverified) Posted May 29th 2009 1:36PM]

That thing is so thick it wouldn't even fit in my computer slot. PCI cards are getting to bloated.
http://jamesmsingleton.com

[Captain Planet Planeteer Power Posted May 29th 2009 2:02PM]

I've never wanted to touch silicon this bad in my life...and I live in OC.

[Mueychacha Posted May 29th 2009 2:20PM]

But does it play mp3s?

[Wwhat Posted May 31st 2009 6:50AM]

hmm, does nvidia put audio codecs on graphicscards like ATI does? If so it actually might :)

[(Unverified) Posted May 29th 2009 2:36PM]

First there was the big black monolith nvidia cards (or for wrestling fans - the undertaker) and the big red machine ati cards (for wrestling fans big red machine=KANE) and now throw into the ring the "Terminator" styled video card case.

[(Unverified) Posted May 29th 2009 2:44PM]

I wonder if this bad boy and my EVGA 295 will make nice for some sweet SLI action...?

[troyallen Posted May 29th 2009 3:13PM]

All these great video cards are good for 6 months

[(Unverified) Posted May 29th 2009 3:13PM]

Its ok my beloved GTX 260 i still love you.

[Jacob1 Posted May 29th 2009 4:03PM]

OMG it's too powerful! my face is melting! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwYzyRfNFn0&feature=related

[sberfield Posted May 29th 2009 4:25PM]

I think that thing might brown out my whole neighborhood.

[gerrrg Posted May 29th 2009 4:39PM]

That looks like a VHS tape sent back from Terminator.

[Bandit5317 Posted May 29th 2009 5:20PM]

4 GB of RAM! And it has the full-bore 512 bit interface as opposed the the GTX 295's 448 bit memory interface. This thing will blow away every other card on the market (and probably have a $700 price tag). Even at that price, all 1000 will sell immediately.

[jasev01 Posted May 29th 2009 6:36PM]

$900000000000000 Plus tax and shipping

[loocas Posted May 29th 2009 7:02PM]

I just JIZZED IN MY PANTS!

[albundy Posted May 29th 2009 10:21PM]

looks like a damn BFG from Doom or Quake! Superb design!

[MrLinux Posted May 30th 2009 8:01AM]

I can here Al'Gore from here screaming. The rumor is that when someone powered one of these cards up In Bangalore all the lights went out across the city it consumes so much power :-P

[MrLinux Posted May 30th 2009 8:02AM]

typo "hear" not here.

[(Unverified) Posted May 31st 2009 3:33AM]

HOLY CRAP! Imagine this in QUAD-SLI, stand aside GTX 295 your little brother ( GTX 285) just got a siamese twin.