http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/ Engadget Comments for ASUS Mars 2 teases superpowered dual GeForce GTX 480 goodness http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/Jul 18th 2010 10:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/
Meh, Nvidia still dropped the ball on this one, this was nearly there iPhone 4]]>Jul 18th 2010 10:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/Meh, Nvidia still dropped the ball on this one, this was nearly 'their' iPhone 4

/fixed]]>Jul 18th 2010 10:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/Jul 18th 2010 10:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/Jul 18th 2010 10:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/
Han Solo: What are you talking about, it's too big to be a space station.]]>Jul 18th 2010 10:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/Jul 18th 2010 11:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/Jul 18th 2010 11:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/
That's what she said?]]>Jul 18th 2010 11:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/Jul 18th 2010 11:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/First came gunpowder, then came Hiroshima, and now we have the Quad-SLI dual 480 GTX. What's next?]]>Jul 19th 2010 1:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/i hear its competition for the highest power draw...right behind the LHC of course

in all seriousness, i want one, scratch that, i want two!]]>Jul 19th 2010 1:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/
*whispered* I jizzed in my pants, I jizzed in my pants.]]>Jul 19th 2010 1:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/
The must be like a 12 layer circuit board with that chip density.

seriously - there is no space wasted on this beast. I predict a 4 slot-wide cooling solution is needed.]]>Jul 19th 2010 3:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/
Sadly, yes. If its not the iPhone fanboys being complete idiots. Its the android fanboys being complete jackasses.

Freaking fanbois]]>Jul 19th 2010 3:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/Jul 19th 2010 6:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/
The requirements of graphics cards are becoming ridiculous... when is it going to end?

First we started taking up two slots instead of one to accommodate the huge fans...

Then came 2 power connectors, cards got longer, heavier, 3 power connectors and for some recent models (5970 4GB) they take up 3 slots...

Makes me want to go back to old classic games... you know, back when the gameplay/story was the main attraction instead of just pure eye candy with no compelling story to go with it...]]>Jul 19th 2010 6:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/wow i always wanted to see how a tactical nuke looks like!]]>Jul 19th 2010 8:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/
I could have said it was nearly their (yep missed that typo first time) Vista, but that's hardly in fashion now is it.

I remember the good old days of Vista release where "it's their Vista" was everywhere.

Good times, good times.

But no I'll just stick with ATI until Nvidias next iteration.]]>Jul 19th 2010 10:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/Minimum system requirements: 1500watt PSU + 3 slot cooler \ HSF]]>Jul 19th 2010 10:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/Jul 21st 2010 7:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/
Seems all everyone wants to do these days is see how much bigger they can make power supply makers make their PSes and thus put on bigger coolers with faster, noisier fans. ]]>Jul 18th 2010 10:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/
I totally agree, but as long as they feel they can get away with it, they will continue to do so. I look forward to when they start shrinking things back down so that PSUs don't have to jump through the roof.]]>Jul 18th 2010 10:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/Jul 18th 2010 11:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/
You could pick up a passive Sapphire HD 4670 for example.

You can't get this kind of raw performance with today's technology without the need for serious juice though, and the more juice, the more heat.

I mean, I'd love to have a 1000hp W16 engine that fits in a Ford Fiesta and gets 30mpg too, but its not going to happen. ]]>Jul 18th 2010 11:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/http://www.anandtech.com/show/2630/2

This will forever be the case. Imagine we are at the year where something with the power of the GTX 480 is passive cooled. Well, then there would also be a GTX 880 with substantially more power that is actively cooled. If there is a means to produce a card that is capable of more processing but runs hotter, then it will be made, since it is still reasonable to produce such a card, as a fan cooled heat sink is not a deterrent for customers. Sure, you can opt for the GTX 480 at that time, but then it wouldn't have the power required to run games that are made in a time where GTX 880s exist. See what I'm getting at?

the passive cards will always and forever be relegated to lower performance models, barring some breakthrough in cooling technology (which still has to be active in some way, just without a fan), since that is the only way to manufacture a card that can produce very little heat. Make it less powerful than what can be made.

What would have to happen is for game developers to basically put a halt to all advancements in graphics, and continue on with whatever eye candy they can muster today with no increases in quality, effects, and resolution. then a world of passive cooled graphics cards can be a reality, because why would you need a more powerful graphics card that produces more heat when the graphics it has to produce can be done on lower powered cards? Personally, I don't want that to happen.]]>Jul 18th 2010 11:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/
*coughXBOX360using2005integratedgraphicstechnologycough*

=p]]>Jul 19th 2010 12:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/Jul 19th 2010 12:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/Jul 19th 2010 12:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/

Woudnt it just be easier to LIVE inside your computer?]]>Jul 19th 2010 3:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/
Dont the 360 and PS3 have similar graphics power?]]>Jul 19th 2010 3:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/Jul 19th 2010 4:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/No. The PS3 actually has weaker graphics, but devs can make up for that by moving stuff off the GPU to one or more of the Cell SPE's. Unfortunately most cross-platform games aren't optimized for the PS3 like that, which means the 360 version almost always has better graphics. Fill-rate of the 360 GPU is much higher.

Also, the PS3 does not have 'dedicated video RAM'. It has 512MB XDR RAM that is split into two 256MB banks, of which only one has full-bandwidth from the GPU, but it can still also used as system RAM for the SPE's, who also have full bandwidth, while the PPC core can only use an extremely low-bandwidth path to it. The PS3 memory does have higher bandwidth by the way, but the Xbox 360 compensates for this by having a much better cache architecture, where each of the 3 CPU cores/2 HW threads per core can choose to lock cache lines and use them as ultra-fast scratch memory.

All in all the PS3 does have a slight edge in terms of specs, but it's also a very strange beast in terms of its architecture, which means only very few games actually make good use of it. 3rd party games are almost invariably better on the 360. I can tell since I have both, and the 360 is modded, so the cross-platform games that had serious issues on my PS3 I just downloaded for the 360, which gets better framerates, better load times and (marginally) better graphics.
]]>Jul 19th 2010 7:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/Some PS3 exclusives blow every 360 game out of the water by the way, so by no means I'm saying the 360 is 'better'. ]]>Jul 19th 2010 7:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/Jul 18th 2010 10:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/Youd need to make your entire pc out of copper to run this thing. Three 8pin power connecters?? I want to see some SLI this.]]>Jul 18th 2010 10:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/
I thought it was crazy that my 4870x2 took a six pin and eight pin connector... rofl! ]]>Jul 18th 2010 11:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/
you mean quad sli?]]>Jul 18th 2010 11:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/
How could I have been so careless...]]>Jul 19th 2010 3:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/Jul 18th 2010 10:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/I'd suggest that you give up your heating system (whatever it is that you have) if you decide to get this. I, for one, would put a tunnel of air ducts behind this beheamoth, draw the heat away from it and use it as my house heater!]]>Jul 19th 2010 3:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/Jul 19th 2010 3:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/Jul 18th 2010 10:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/Jul 18th 2010 10:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/Either lots of it or just a little. There is always a market for anything, specially if us the people have the income for it, and many US residents have the income..]]>Jul 18th 2010 10:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/I think the majority of people making use of it would actually have a reason to have it. Most people (including me) are probably scared away by the price tag. Of course, there are always those who need to compensate *that* badly.]]>Jul 18th 2010 10:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/
e-peen +3 inches]]>Jul 19th 2010 3:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/Jul 18th 2010 10:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/Jul 18th 2010 10:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/asus-mars-2-teases-superpowered-dual-geforce-gtx-480-goodness/
I believe he was referring to a PS as in power supply, and there are some high end power supplies with 3, 8 pin connectors.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817153054

im sure there are cheaper ones but i just started at the most expensive and worked my way down. but then again if you are going to buy a 1000 dollar gpu this is nothing. ]]>Jul 18th 2010 11:00PM