If you ever wanted to see just what a $1200 USD graphics card can do, then you won`t wanna miss our latest review of the Asus ARES HD 5970 4GB. This bad boy sports dual HD 5970 GPU cores, and a beefy heatsink (and price) to match!

ASUS ARES HD 5970 4GB Review

i guess im going to be the grouch and say that im surprised that for such a damn high cost, there is not much that is included with the card. no adapters for the different display ports? come on. also, im surprised that they have a VGA port instead of a DVI or another HDMI port. who would get this, and still run a monitor with a VGA port?

grav, regarding the comparison between this and two 5870s, i think they might have similar performance, but either way, id still get that over this 5970 any day. hell, id get a third 5870 too. apparently they scale well.

ahh, right. in the picture it looked like a VGA port to me for some reason.

quote tallteen86

Is the 4GB of memory really all that necessary?

I imagine it's mainly for outputting to 2 (can it handle more?) video outputs at high resolution each?

All ATI 5000 series cards can output 3 displays, with the exception of the 6 and 12 display special eyefinity cards.



If anybody has this card, I'm sure they have 3 high res monitors.

Interesting second card in this series.

I have to wonder if they're splitting the names between the brands;

ATI = Greek
NVIDIA = Roman

Would make since, seeing as how the ARES is an HD 5970, while the MARS was a GTX 295.

But hey, don't forget that these R.O.G. brand cards have a second purpose; they also serve as space heaters.

quote ChiroVette

Excellent review and very infrmative. I agree that the price is a little insane, but if you want that kind of bragging rights, lol you gotta pay!

By the way, I may be wrong, but isn't the 5970 simply two 5870's in one card, making the Ares, in effect, 4 5870's in the card with, reflective of the 4GB's of video ram?

Thanks!

No it is still just 2 HD 5870's combined. The on-board memory and clock speeds are increased though, which will yield better performance.

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Can you run 3 monitors at once on this card? I've heard of other cards with similar outputs only able to output on 2 out of 3 video outputs at a time.

for 1200 big ones, i would expect it to.

Brings a new meaning to "Plug and Play". Just plug this card in, and play any game out on the market.