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The ARES, which is part of Asus’ Republic of Gamers series, feels special right off the bat because it ships in a massive box that when unpacked, reveals a heavy-duty metal briefcase. Within this you’ll find the ARES graphics card and like its packaging, the graphics card feels substantial as well. While the card’s length might make you raise an eyebrow, it’s the weight of the card’s cooling system that will truly shock you. Asus has built a seemingly bulletproof cooler that employs a massive cooling fan and Copper heatsinks with eight 8mm heatpipes. While we had no problems mounting and securing this behemoth to our test rig the cooling system, despite its massive proportions, proved very loud after 15 minutes of testing. Running our benchmarks on the ARES we were blown away by its performance results. The ARES managed benchmark results of 134fps, 79fps and 61.3fps at 1920 x 1200 pixels in our H.A.W.X, World in Conflict and Heaven v2.0 benchmarks. These are the highest results we’ve ever received from a single graphics card.
Back in April, we first gave you a glimpse of the extreme Asus ARES dual-Radeon HD 5870 GPU powered graphics card, complete with some preliminary benchmarks. At the time, the specifications weren't quite finalized and there was little word about availability in the U.S., but the card's impressive configuration immediately piqued our interest. The ARES was, after all, a "true dual-Radeon HD 5870" CrossFire setup on a single PCB. The Radeon HD 5970 was / is the fastest single graphics card on the market, and the Asus ARES would clearly offer more performance due to its increased number of stream processor cores and potentially higher clocks. Over the long holiday weekend, we received word that Asus had decided to introduce the ARES in the U.S. market. And much to our satisfaction one of the cards was en route to the HotHardware labs. We have only had a short time with the card, but it is exactly the type of product we know the hardest of the hardcore among you are dying to check out. So, we immediately ripped the box open and plugged it into one of our test rigs to see just what it could do. Here's a hint--this baby is freakin' Fast, with a capital F. Above are the final specifications for the Asus ARES.