[ASUS MARS II GTX 590]
The Republic of Gamers MARS II is a custom dual-GF110 based graphics card in the works at ASUS. Regarding the GeForce GTX 590, Mars II has more savvy business model taken from the reference GTX 580. Its cooler sticks to the black+red color scheme in use with ASUS ROG products for a while now, and uses an intricate cutout design. The shroud suspends two 120 mm high-sweep fans that blow air on to two heatsinks with highly dense aluminum fin arrays to which heat is fed by copper heat pipes. The card draws power from three 8-pin PCI-Express power connectors. The card uses two NVIDIA GF110 GPUs with the same core configuration and clock profile as of a GTX 580, something impossible on a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590.
GeForce GTX 580, effectively making MARS II a dual-GTX 580, which also provides the overclocking headroom
known.
Power is determined by three 8-pin connectors and the card can be further overclock to achieve even greater performance. Asus Mars II is the issue that will be produced in 1000 copies.
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With pure innovative strength, Cooler Master, the leader in enthusiast computer components, has unleashed yet another prevailing arsenal to compete in the full-tower chassis segment. Proud and robust in its appearance, the HAF 932 presents its sturdy sentinel housing and revolutionary High Air Flow structure to enhance and protect any hardware component that is worthy of the highest performance.
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[Cooler Master HAF 932]
With pure innovative strength, Cooler Master, the leader in enthusiast computer components, has unleashed yet another prevailing arsenal to compete in the full-tower chassis segment. Proud and robust in its appearance, the HAF 932 presents its sturdy sentinel housing and revolutionary High Air Flow structure to enhance and protect any hardware component that is worthy of the highest performance.
Features- The HAF932 features a fully-rugged appearance and is housed in a tough casing to offer outstanding protection.
- A rugged HAF932 comes equipped to operate with unparalleled thermal performance
- Patented finger-press buttons for quickly maintaining or upgrading 5.25 inch drive devices
- Removable HDD racks and cable management system for better cable routing and neatness
- Easy access to liquid coolant fills port
- Meshed back slot for providing passive cooling
- Independent air intake designed for bottom-mounted PSU or installation of two 120mm fans
- Retaining holes for easy installation of CPU coolers
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[LGA 2011]
Asus has bagged the prize for day one craziness atComputex 2011 by showing a motherboard that features an LGA1366 and an LGA2011 processor socket.
It has to be said that the motherboard, currently codenamed Danshui Bay, is only currently a concept design and is therefore unlikely to see a full manufacturing run any time soon.
The idea of a dual-socket motherboard is intriguing though, as it would of course allow consumers a more defined upgrade path in the future. Intel would also likely be supportive of the board as it essentially ensures that anyone who buys it will be buying Intel CPUs for a long while to come.
We can only guess at what price this ginormous board would be likely to retail for as having two different chipsets on a motherboard is likely to drive price up quite a bit. The board also features a ridiculous amount of SATA ports, which seems to indicate that the X79 chipset (which services the LGA2011 socket) is chock full of SATA ports.
You'll also notice that the LGA2011 socket is serviced by eight memory sockets, four either side of the CPU socket. This all but confirms that LGA2011 CPUs will come complete with a quad-channel memory controller, something which we suggested may be the fact way back at the end of last year.
Is this something that you would buy? Is tying yourself into future upgrades something that you are willing to do? Let us know your thoughts in the forum.
It has to be said that the motherboard, currently codenamed Danshui Bay, is only currently a concept design and is therefore unlikely to see a full manufacturing run any time soon.
The idea of a dual-socket motherboard is intriguing though, as it would of course allow consumers a more defined upgrade path in the future. Intel would also likely be supportive of the board as it essentially ensures that anyone who buys it will be buying Intel CPUs for a long while to come.
We can only guess at what price this ginormous board would be likely to retail for as having two different chipsets on a motherboard is likely to drive price up quite a bit. The board also features a ridiculous amount of SATA ports, which seems to indicate that the X79 chipset (which services the LGA2011 socket) is chock full of SATA ports.
You'll also notice that the LGA2011 socket is serviced by eight memory sockets, four either side of the CPU socket. This all but confirms that LGA2011 CPUs will come complete with a quad-channel memory controller, something which we suggested may be the fact way back at the end of last year.
Is this something that you would buy? Is tying yourself into future upgrades something that you are willing to do? Let us know your thoughts in the forum.
