More Pics of ASUS ROG GTX285 Matrix

Some first hand pics of ASUS GTX285 Matrix

Neon glow on top, you can change color if you don’t like blue

http://pic.xfastest.com/sxs112/ASUS/...5Matrix_00.JPG
neon light

http://pic.xfastest.com/sxs112/ASUS/...5Matrix_01.JPG
Front

http://pic.xfastest.com/sxs112/ASUS/...5Matrix_02.JPG
Another angle

http://pic.xfastest.com/sxs112/ASUS/...5Matrix_03.JPG
12V connector

http://pic.xfastest.com/sxs112/ASUS/...5Matrix_04.JPG
TOP

http://pic.xfastest.com/sxs112/ASUS/...5Matrix_05.JPG
back view

http://pic.xfastest.com/sxs112/ASUS/...5Matrix_06.JPG
Fujitsu ML capacitor

http://pic.xfastest.com/sxs112/ASUS/...5Matrix_07.JPG
Super Hybrid Engine
Real-time Hardware Detection, Adjustment and Full Information Monitoring

http://pic.xfastest.com/sxs112/ASUS/285M/11.png
With super Hybrid Engine, all the values in the picture can be adjusted, even momory timing!
U can also save the setting to VBIOS, which is cool.


http://pic.xfastest.com/sxs112/ASUS/...5Matrix_08.JPG
Safe mode button, I smell overclocking
If ur own VBIOS crashes, u can push this button to recover.

Nice!, these use higher quality components right? (Like solid state caps/chokes)

Would be nice to have a Nvidia card that didn't make the now signature choke buzzing that increases in volume as the stress that is put on the card goes up. Gotta love parts supplied by the lowest bidder.

What is the amount of video ram? (I assume 2gb)

Hopefully EVGA can start using higher quality components instead of just slapping their sticker on the ref design.

That is one seriously sexy gpu. I want it even if its just for cosmetics lolz

Wow damn that looks ultra cool I'll take 3 please :D

But if its 1GB I'm going to be "ultra" disappointed.

:down: Don't like it all. And I already can hear how loud it is...the same as a 4870 Glaciator or a 4890 Top...

I do think it's a looker... ;)

i think it's going to be a performer! i have only two concerns 1) price? 2) why release this card so close to the launch of next gen hardware?

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Originally Posted by 570091D

why release this card so close to the launch of next gen hardware?

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^ What is up with these timelines ? MSI's 275 as well, what the hell?

But then, I think about it and figured out that A LOT of my coworkers are buying stuff like this all the time thinking they're buying the latest and greatest. They really do, and will continue to do so months after the next gen arrive.

when?


thats all i wanna know :p

Wow a recover bios option? Awesome =-) Would of loved that a couple years ago, but whatever.

If this card came out 3 months ago, i would be all over it. Too late IMO, GT300 should be here soon, ATI 5 series as well.

vga cmos reset, nice!

the heatsink looks like a normal ref model though :/

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Originally Posted by GAR

GT300 should be here soon

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define soon :D
6+months?

can you lend me a few k$?
ill pay you back soon ^^

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Originally Posted by saaya

define soon :D
6+months?

can you lend me a few k$?
ill pay you back soon ^^

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well, im guessing november time which is about 3 months away. Most sucessfull launches for nvidia has been around this time, im guessing they want to reach this goal in time for the christmas season.

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Originally Posted by Star_Hunter

Hopefully EVGA can start using higher quality components instead of just slapping their sticker on the ref design.

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If only EVGA's customer service and product support could have sex with ASUS's engineering, and they could have a baby, that baby would be the best mobo/graphics card company in the history of life!

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Originally Posted by LiberalElephant

If only EVGA's customer service and product support could have sex with ASUS's engineering, and they could have a baby, that baby would be the best mobo/graphics card company in the history of life!

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Indeed :)

Would be nice to find out how much you can play with the volts...

Can I buy just the cooler? :D That thing looks amazing.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2578/...5aed5f3e_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3481/...47c44cee_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3549/...b87bb01f_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3479/...c702dc6f_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2494/...a409e31c_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2621/...86ea5880_b.jpg

^
Quick get an anime expert in here to confirm they're not apeing someone again. :rolleyes:

Made of concentrated win this thing is.

dream card........... but is too late to present on the market......

Thx for the pics SXS112

We asked for a sample (damn why didn't I ask for two lol) hope Asus will agree :)

If this card can run +720'ish daily, 1700Shader core and ram around 1400 on air ,it will never be too late on the market. More than enough oomph there... it will just have to be sold at a competitive price

OMG!!!!!! Thats is a very nice VGA :D:D:D I love it :D

Looks lovely
I am assuming this has 2GB of RAM? (otherwise it does not really offer much to the table...)
Shame this was not released earlier because in 3 1/2 months from now the DirectX11 Generation cards will be hitting the shelves...
John

1Gb version mate...

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Quick get an anime expert in here to confirm they're not apeing someone again. :rolleyes:[/B]

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Ironman with a cape and wings on his helmet perhaps.... :rofl:

This card does look pretty badass. I hope we will start seeing stuff like this closer to launch with future generations. That's the disadvantage jumping on the new tech bandwagon from the get go, all the truly cool stuff comes on much later down the road.

Great looking card, but like everyone else it is a bit odd to release when the new cards should be coming soon and I bet this thing will cost to much.

Does have some great features though.

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Originally Posted by Leeghoofd

1Gb version mate...

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Shame :(
GTA IV would get some lovin' if this was a 2GB card

this is great to see from asus

they are really being the only innovative company in GPU segment

this is really sick :banana::banana::banana::banana: :up:

Where's the card?
Again, all I see is a bulky plastic shroud, some close-ups of few unintersting details and ofcourse, marketing slides.

A great VGA... Just imagine what two of them can do in SLI :D

However I think it will be quite noisy...

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Originally Posted by dinos22

this is great to see from asus

they are really being the only innovative company in GPU segment

this is really sick :banana::banana::banana::banana: :up:

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I agree after looking their GTX 285x2 monster....

i thought its coming out in july?
its august now and the card hasnt even been reviewed, not to mention been sold :shrug:

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Originally Posted by saaya

i thought its coming out in july?
its august now and the card hasnt even been reviewed, not to mention been sold :shrug:

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It will be out this month :)

A little late but awsome card , would bring a can of whoop arss in 3DMark Vantage :D

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Originally Posted by onethreehill

It will be out this month :)

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so itll come in august?
less than half a year for gt300, and isnt there a perf 40nm gt200 chip coming before that? or is that cancelled? hmmmm

in june it was already a bit late imo, now the timing is even worse...
in early 2009 this would have been a killer card and very competitive, with the new cards from ati and nvidia and soon intel coming out...

well better late then never :D
cant wait to see some reviews :)

This is no card for the PURE overclocking Team as it will suffer from overheating, voltmodding , abusive words and manipulations. This card has to be treated nicely Angelo... sorry you can't have one (contacted Asus to put you on the blacklist)

ASUS Link
http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_I...GA6&templete=2

finally... something that doesn't look like a boring old black plastic box. :)

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But that's exactly what it looks like.:p:

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Originally Posted by sholvaco

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But that's exactly what it looks like.:p:

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LOL...... :yepp:

its the inner values that count :D
i like the mars card :)

Sample on the way , looking forward to seeing how it will perform again't my light voltmodded 285...

Card arrived today will start testing and exploring from tonite on :) She's really pretty lol

http://users.telenet.be/OAP2/GTX%202...atrix/box3.jpg

http://users.telenet.be/OAP2/GTX%202...winsbottom.jpg

http://users.telenet.be/OAP2/GTX%202...x/twinstop.jpg

Piccies will be redone for the review don't worry...

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Originally Posted by Leeghoofd

Card arrived today will start testing and exploring from tonite on :) She's really pretty lol

http://users.telenet.be/OAP2/GTX%202...atrix/box3.jpg

http://users.telenet.be/OAP2/GTX%202...winsbottom.jpg

http://users.telenet.be/OAP2/GTX%202...x/twinstop.jpg

Piccies will be redone for the review don't worry...

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i await your review :D

Leeghoofd please report about the noise levels and ram amount. Lol at the graphic claiming 14% faster performance. If you just look at the graphic by itself, it looks like as if Asus is 50% faster.

P.S.: ChinStrap for :banana::banana::banana::banana:'s sake edit your post and remove those pics from there. What you did is a very noob thing to do:slapass:

...sigh

i hate you Lee :D

the fan looks like really cheap plastic :/
i like the backplate and the rubber cover for the pciE interface, little things, but nice... and they make the card/package look well thought through.
i dont like the layout of the plastic shroud though, just some rays going away from the center, same as on other asus designs... its the most simple gemoetric design besides having plane horizontal or vertical lines lol... not very creative... :P

and the rog logo, well i never liked it, looks like a "no fear" logo ripp off to me and its not cool or interesting or anything, at least to me...

http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/3991/nofearbest2.th.jpg
http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/2310/cxv055nf3.th.jpg

unfortunately gigabyte wasnt exactly very creative either, lol :lol:
http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/6946/ghostbhq.th.png

the super cap on the back looks nice, but i have some doubts over how useful it really is :D
looking forward to your review leghoofed! :D

if my 4870 Matrix cards are anything to judge by benchin 1122/1150 in Xfire on DICE i would say these guys know what they are doing ;).

I'm sure that these GTX285 Matrix cards will absolutely own for W.R. benching :yepp: as you have an edge in power design and vRAM tweaking now

That is very impressive to me

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Originally Posted by dinos22

i hate you Lee :D

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Have you been talking to my wife lately ? :D

Out of the box card performance is for me, more performance for someone else you know well Dinos :) Sad thing is we got very limited time to test it...

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Originally Posted by dinos22

if my 4870 Matrix cards are anything to judge by benchin 1122/1150 in Xfire on DICE i would say these guys know what they are doing ;).

I'm sure that these GTX285 Matrix cards will absolutely own for W.R. benching :yepp: as you have an edge in power design and vRAM tweaking now

That is very impressive to me

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Things are gonna heatup in VGA's now (which is good for us) cos you know who has a range of cards coming too. From what I know what's coming is more than a serious contender.

Review is up =) only tests on air though

Asus Matrix 285 reviewed

got it yesterday
http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/l...1/IMG_0015.jpg

only 5 came in to malaysia..
and now left one

Can you give me an idea about the noise ( not the fan ) but some weird gurgling noise the card makes when being under load.

For the rest my sample was better than the vanilla one I bought... if you can put this under water it will scream ( with Massmans voltmod) maybe even with the 1200mV)

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Originally Posted by Leeghoofd

Can you give me an idea about the noise ( not the fan ) but some weird gurgling noise the card makes when being under load.

For the rest my sample was better than the vanilla one I bought... if you can put this under water it will scream ( with Massmans voltmod) maybe even with the 1200mV)

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hmm will test it later bro
got to go to a funeral

one thing
the fujitsu caps at the back
mine is written as fpcap. (fujitsu polymer caps??) instead of the fujitsu logo.

last thing
the quality of the cooler plastic seriously reminds me of my 8800 ultra's

the zotac amps i had flew with the vmod's.
wonder how this will turn out

In the review (see sig) there are the points for the hard or soft volt mod. We got some good numbers there, but were totally limited by the stock cooler and ambient temps here... with some H2O/LN2 these babies will fly...

Would be nice to have a detailed shot of that Cap and some more info when you have the time...

http://www.fpcap.jp/en/company/history.html

fpcaps hmmm so different manufactorer but origins is fujitsu but based in china??
http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/l...1/IMG_0017.jpg

Our sample had Fujistu on it :)

so, when can i buy this in USA?

:)

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Originally Posted by cstkl1

http://www.fpcap.jp/en/company/history.html

fpcaps hmmm so different manufactorer but origins is fujitsu but based in china??

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Fujitsu sold their cap business a few months back. Same manuf. plant, different owner: LINK

thanks for the reply

leg.. no sound at all.. other than gush of wind..
heck this card is not as noisy as my amp and no screeching sound when i run 3dmark06

Very Good ! ,then maybe they changed something on the design or we got bad luck with our particular sample...
I can tell you it's not a high pitched sound, more of a waterloop with loads of air in it...

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Originally Posted by Leeghoofd

Very Good ! ,then maybe they changed something on the design or we got bad luck with our particular sample...
I can tell you it's not a high pitched sound, more of a waterloop with loads of air in it...

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eh was too soon to say that just now

second card has a high pitched sound like the amp

no gurgle sound unless my dual triple rad with 12 fans on it is somehow muffling it.

From the pics on this thread it looks like it may be posiible to flip the matrix graphic area if you are using a btx styled case? I saw two screws on the underside in one of the pics earlier in this thread. It would suck if you couldn't flip that lol.

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The card was perfectly stable at 771/1656/1500. No artifacts, no freezing.

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:shocked: awesome!!!

well so far mine is
756/1700/3000 ( default/oc mem timing)1.2
or 760/1690/2650 ( optimized mem timing)
both cards are the same.

crazy thing is with 1.16 this card is already flying at 720/1656/2800

man i hate asus drivers for utility
screwed up my registry.
had to clean it and install just the itracker alone..
they should give more options in the menu.. who wants the gamer osd.

let's hope Asus gives in and unlocks 1.26 or such for the clockers

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Originally Posted by Leeghoofd

let's hope Asus gives in and unlocks 1.26 or such for the clockers

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hmm so far one thing i dont like about this card of mine

zotac has no issue with core/shader ratio of 2.3-2.5
the matrix tolerates up to 2.25 ...that sux.

also yes ure right this card seriously needs better cooling
i found that once my power vreg hits 80C.. instability occurs regardless of voltage.

geee todays a hot day and my aircon is busted.. testing at 35-36C room ambient temp

Throw some water on it!

*finally*

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814121335

"The card was perfectly stable at 771/1656/1500. No artifacts, no freezing."

That is a wee bit better than the average 285 guy gets... :up:

Keep in mind that's only on Air cooling Talonman, if you use added cooling ( H20 or even LN2) for benching it could be a scorcher. Asus is gonna use these cards in the euro qualifier (no idea about the rules though if modding or adding extra cooling is allowed) we are hoping to see some nice GTX 285 records