The ASUS MARS GPU is... expensive!

[Rob Williams]

The MARS dual-GTX 285 card that ASUS was showing off at Computex is produced in a limited quantity (1,000), so we already knew that the price was going to be high. But now that it's available for "pre-order" at SCAN, we can see it's actually going to be sold for a lot more than anyone probably thought... £1,030.98, or close to $1,700 USD. This even makes Intel's Extreme Edition processors seem like a steal!

I really don't see what the big deal is about this card, so perhaps someone can tell me what I'm missing. Yes, ASUS showed off Far Cry 2 running in Quad-HD, but what's stopping two regular GTX 285's in SLI from accomplishing that? Is it just the 4GB of GDDR that's making the difference?

Either way, it's a cool-looking card, but with a price like this, I'd be surprised to see all 1,000 picked up.

http://www.scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductId=1032048
http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/14226/34/

 

[Doomsday]

this be the same like for the ppl who collect endangered or rare animal heads or skins and hang em as their trophies!

$1700 = a good Core i7 rig! with 24" Wide Screen LCD and a single GTX 285 to play any game! hah!

ps: no innocent animal was hurt during this message!

 

[madstork91]

DOOM! you so read my mind!

I could build 3 computers for that price... Sell each of them at a mark up, and repeat.

Not a bad idea actually. Now I see how Dell was started.

 

[Kougar]

I'd just spend that kind of money on a good 30" display... then use the leftover to buy a GTX 285. At around $270 for one, cards like the Mars are only for people where money is nothing but showing off their system is everything.

 

[Merlin]

Asus seems to be really expanding their product line.
I got the Asus BlueRay drive for 149.xx USD and it's great
And I fell in Love with the Asus 25.5 monitor

Go Asus, Go

PS... As well, I would not go with the Mars, but it's good to see Asus is still Rockin