lol @ ASUS and yet...I still want one. It looks like a beast. I would need a whole new PSU to power it though. haha
That card is massive. ._. I've with EniGmA. <.< Although, I wouldn't need a new power supply, just a new motherboard. <.<
That's looking mighty sexy. It's getting to the point where we have to attach the system board to the graphics card, rather than the other way around. And it's ASUS not "Asooos" -_- How people can mispronounce that is beyond me.
Thats a monster! I wonder how big video cards are ganna keep getting, it seems like every year they get bigger and need a larger power supply.
Keep in mind that thing isn't really meant to be used. It's a show case card made to get ASUS's name in the tech news and not anything else. I mean it's only about a %20 increase over the top Nvidia card for twice the price. Actually tower PCs will be going away soon it's got 15 to 20 years left at the most that's why your seeing a big push by Nvidia on their Tegra platform and AMD on their APU platform because they want to get the kinks out before they are forced to move away from the tower PC parts business. And no PCs are not going away just the tower form of them and to some extent the need to keep upgrading them all the time because gaming graphics are about to get to the point of truly realistic images and you can't really go farther then that in terms of average consumer need for more powerful computers. The current more power war will likely change to a miniaturization war. Some predictions are saying as much as 40-60 percent of people that bought a tower PC in the last 6 years will never buy a tower PC again most won't buy anything more then a touch pad type device simply because they don't need anything more.
Already is to some extent, thats how the companies make things more powerful. The reduction of processing nodes allow the same performance from less electricity which raises the limit of performance capabilities higher. Process size gets smaller once a year or so and we are almost to the point that we simply cant go any smaller. Intel was scheduled for quite a while for 10 or 11nm in 2015, and 7 or 8 nm in 2017. However I think Intel just updated their plans this last June at the research day and now is saying they plan to release 8nm processors in 2015. From what I remember, 5 nanometers was the limit. Might be lower but Im remember 5 for some reason. I think the reasoning behind this was that the atomic structure of silicon would be too weak beyond that point and simply doesnt work. So we really only have a few years left before miniaturization is simply no longer possible. You run into problems like the high probability of quantum tunneling and things like that. Lithographic technology is too imprecise to manufacture processors when the silicon has to be cut to a very specific atom count. The only way to progress in computer technology past the year 2018-2020 is to have a large leap in technology. This could be quantum computer, photon computer (most likely the next stage), using materials like graphene (not possible with current technology), or move to carbon nanotubes. Possibly even some form of nanotech chip. Photon chips are probably the most likely because we already use things with light in fiber optics so its an easy to reach goal. Performance will see a boost since we can pass two data streams over each other (or more!) without interfering because of how light works. This is impossible with silicon and electricity. Photon chips will be short lived though since Quantum computing is where everything is at from a performance viewpoint and it is coming along nicely. Current estimates are something like 20% success rate of calculations. Which may seem low, but that is incredibly good from where everything has been in the past. Quantum entanglement is a tricky thing to get right. Benefits of quantum technology is that we no longer have bits since a "bit" can be a 0, 1, or both at the same time in quantum tech. The speed at which it runs at is immensely faster than what our computer currently are. Even the most basic of true quantum computers would be thousands of times faster than our current processors, and performance scales exponentially beyond that point. Sorry, I didnt really mean for that post to become so large
DE already beat me to it. They only made so many and its not really suppose to be for the mainstream. ASUS has done this before (ARES comes to mind). Most people say it that way, so what's the correct way of saying ASUS? Give me an ASOOS reference.
Thats actually becoming a problem with many of the top end cards. Manufacturers need to stop making the top end cards only able to fit in full size towers. The card should never be longer than the motherboard is.
Thats how I have and probably always will pronounce it. However, the proper pronunciation according to the CEO of ASUS is "A-seuss" Or in Taiwanese phonetics: "Eh-SUS". I blame all their weird pronunciations on them not being able to speak English well and having strong accents, so to me its still A-sus http://www.viddler.com/explore/engadget/videos/2176/ For our next debate, lets talk about Logitech. Low-gee-tech? loj-i-tech? law-gee-tech? lodge-i-tech?
Lol. ^ Oh god no Engima, don't get us started on the whole to-mat-o tomato bit. <.< And actually, a graphics card that big would fit in my tower, lol. But only BARELY. I decided to measure the inside since I was cleaning the dust out today to keep this old work horse going. lol.
On sale now, with combo buy only. Must spend $4000+ to get the card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121470 So all of us true hardcore people are buying 2 each right? Wow. I just realized its a triple slot design.
You only just now realized? What the hell? Did the whole, -thats a big ass fuckin' card- part completely miss your brain/ears? lol. No offense intended, but. . . lol.
I always pronounced it A-SEUSS like Dr. Seuss. 'A-Suss' produces flecks of spittle it's really obviously not meant to be spoken. Like trying to give a dissertation and hock a loogie at the same time. Speaking of dissertation, that guy was literally opening the box for the first time on a limited product and went on for 12 minutes straight improv. I would want to applaud but it's really just one largely distasteful powertrip. Now if he said it was for his customer and not him or his business, then it'd be pretty decent salesmanship.
He doesn't get to keep anything he unboxes he's the pre-configured system builder for NCIX.com. What did you think they where going to let him open a brand new $1500 card and not mention the companies name?