ASUS presented its fastest dual GPU video card. On Computex 2014 they showed the ASUS ARES III ROG video card intended to be used only with water cooling. As you can see it doesnt has any fins or fans for air cooling just two connectors for water cooling. The thing that makes this card special is not just the water cooling. Its made to take only one PCI slot. Its thin and its not taking much space. This is maybe the fastest one slot video card. The old version ASUS ARES II ROG was coming with integrated water cooling module. This time ASUS decided to leave the cooling for the end client.
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| ASUS ARES III ROG |
This is not cheap video card with 2 Hawaii XT cores working on 1030 MHz and the chips are hand picked from other cores to have less power consumption and clock-ability, with 8GB of DDR5 RAM and only 500 units produced it will come at price of 2000$-2500$.
ASUS promise that the hand picked GPU cores will have 25% cooler performance than the reference GPU cores on a normal video card. The cooler performance will also mean that the cores will clock better and with good water-cooling block the card has really good over-clock potential. The core voltage will be digital controlled, with nice steps(like on the old ASUS cards)
There is another "cool" thing about the card. Since it is a limited edition with only 500 units produced. On every card there will be serial number from 1 to 500 (on the bottom corner of the card as seen on the picture).
Here is the official ASUS ARES III web page.
http://rog.asus.com/324562014/gaming-graphics-cards-2/ares-iii-limited-edition-unlimited-power/
