Hardware Inside the £1,000 Asus Mars

Gutsy move BT !

 

I wouldn't have thought anyone would have the gonads to do it, but you have !
Excellent !

 

But, card, cost, apart, flibble.

Definately a nice take apart, and damn gutsy.

 

LMAO... just purchased 3x GTX 285's, 3x Aquacomputer blocks & still have enough change out of a grand for an i7 920 DO chip.
What a pointless card, at this price anyway (IMHO) ;-)

 

Too funny. Good thing you guys aren't celebrity surgeons.

Is some engineering there but reminds me of wacky weed lunch project.

Well, least they make great mobos.

 

yeah, esp now that the new gen cards are out with more to follow

 

part of the international semi conductor conspiracy lol, you aint seen the brown envelopes stuffed with used bank notes

 

Did they notice?

 

"but Asus has reduced this to four-phase for the slave card and only five-phase for the master."

THIS IS WRONG!!

You can actually see the 5th digital PWM slave chip under a small thermal pad next to the long inductor, adjacent to the empty space where it is on the opposit PCB on the 3rd picture, second page of this article.

So infact both GPU recieves 5 phase digital PWM.

 

Also I only see one slave digital PWM chip on each PCB for the memory, so not sure where Bit-Tech found it to be 2 phase memory power per PCB.

 

^^^ Sorry the article never said this card has 2 phase memory power per PCB, just that it's the case for the reference design. But definitely check out on the 5 Phase for both GPUs.

 

BT, do you have to pay the full price if you break the testing device? Just wondering.