News - ASUS teases enthusiasts with close-up pictures of crazy MARS II card

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So macho that it makes Bear Grylls cry.

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that is an awesome looking card. so blinking expensive though.

Mmm nude PCB. :P

It is expensive but people buy the likes of 990x CPUs for about the same price, and TBH a card like this would make more sense than the former for gaming. Still way beyond the peak of the price/performance curve though! ;)

thats actually not too bad a price considering 2 gtx580s will run you around £700-800, nearly 900 for 3gb models

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Originally Posted by watercooled

Mmm nude PCB. :P

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Not an awful lot of nudity going on. The average burqa-wearing human shows off more skin than that PCB.

I wonder if they'll come up with a standard way of supporting huge, heavy cards like these? Quite a bit of stress is put on the PCB and you can see even relatively light cards flex slightly because of it.

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Originally Posted by this_is_gav

Not an awful lot of nudity going on. The average burqa-wearing human shows off more skin than that PCB.

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Was only a nerd-joke?

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Originally Posted by watercooled

I wonder if they'll come up with a standard way of supporting huge, heavy cards like these? Quite a bit of stress is put on the PCB and you can see even relatively light cards flex slightly because of it.

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I guess that's what the plate on the back is for - adds a bit of rigidity.

Still, you'd want to remove this card if you're taking it anywhere!

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Originally Posted by watercooled

Was only a nerd-joke?

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Yeah, I know. Countered a rather poor, dry one of my own. Sorry the humour didn't translate. I should have added a smiley. :)

Ah, thought I was coming across more seriously than intended. xD

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Originally Posted by watercooled

I wonder if they'll come up with a standard way of supporting huge, heavy cards like these? Quite a bit of stress is put on the PCB and you can see even relatively light cards flex slightly because of it.

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a lot of high end cases now have support systems going down the middle of the case to hold the top of big cards in better

i just pay a midget to stand in there and hold mine up

I use a few cable ties around the PCIe power connectors for support usually, mainly to counter the weight of the cables pulling the card down.

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Originally Posted by HEXUS

So macho that it makes Bear Grylls cry.

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yeah, but can it drink its own piss?