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here we have a very special unboxing of a very limited edition card that's right even more limited edition than the GTX 590 which is very very hard to find these days features 2 GTX 580 GPUs but the GTX 590 has those GPUs under clocked in order to meet the thermal and power targets of that particular product as well as to increase the yields on the one that I have with me here today no such thing has been done this is not a GTX 590 because unlike the GTX 590 this not only has all of the CUDA cores enabled but it is running at full GTX 580 clock speeds which makes it more of a GeForce GTX 580 sli but it's still on a single card this is the Mars 2 from a seuss this is a Republic of gamers branded product and it better be for the price point it has physics 3d vision including 3d vision surround because it has dual GPUs it supports Nvidia CUDA as well as nvidia sli yes in theory you could run 2 of these monsters on a single motherboard in Quad SLI with 4 GPUs let's open this bad boy up and have a look at what a soos has to say for themselves about it so they're saying it is 22% faster than the GTX 590 ok with three gigs of gddr5 memory that's 1.5 gigs per GPU it supports their GPU tweak utility which allows you to adjust the core memory clocks core voltage and fan speeds it features a direct see you tube cooler which apparently uses 212 centimeter to 120 mil fans for 600 percent more airflow than a generic GTX 590 it also has 21 phase of power delivery Wow ok which allows it to deliver 15 percent performance boost for with a 2.5 times longer lifespan and 35 degree cooler operation pretty neat alright let's go ahead and flip this over see if there's anything that they have on the back that they do not have on the front aha minimum recommended system power is no less than 1,000 watts now that's a little absurd there's no way this car pulls a thousand watts of power in fact with two even with two of them in a system you could probably power it with a thousand watt power supply so I wouldn't worry too much about that it requires two eight pin power cables it has a maximum resolution okay aha there's the engine clock so 782 megahertz and then four gigahertz on the memory with three gigs of RAM let's go ahead and get this opened up and have a look at the card you've all been waiting to see since you press the button to watch this video oops not so good it's just the box if I rip the card then we'd be having a different conversation all right this thing is huge although I've come to expect that from a suits republic of gamers graphics cards sure we're going to do the old iPhone size comparison you know what why don't we hold off until just a couple more minutes until we have a chance to take the card out so here's a little custom engraved serial number thing maybe it's a sticker no it's not a sticker this document certified that certifies that the limited edition Mars 2 is a unique work of art design by the Asuza ROG team right there so this is number 536 of 999 that is how many of these cards were produced worldwide so there are not very many of them in existence adapters included we've got a couple of dual six pin two eight pin power adapters honestly though if you don't have a proper power supply do not buy this graphics card or buy this graphics card and also buy a power supply right here this exclusive a Sue's PCIe sustainer for the Mars two ensures a perfect fit and increased stability to protect the integrity of your motherboard and PCI Express 2.0 slot okay Oh neat okay so you take this and you put it on the third one two three the third PCIe or PCI slot and what it does is it keeps the update you know what I'll explain it once I have the card in my hand because that'll be easier but that's cool okay we have an sli bridge we have a DVI to vga adapter although honestly if you're running a VGA monitor in this graphics card then let get with the program okay let's go ahead and did I say two PCIe eight pin connectors because I missed three I guess okay we've got some documentation here okay we have a Republic of gamers sticker as well as a driver in manual and a speed set up to a QuickStart guide I guess is what they mean by that and finally the graphics part itself so first things first let's do the iPhone size comparison so there's the you know what it's as thick as an iPhone is wide so that is a triple slot card alright we're going to go ahead and lay it down gently whoa it's heavy okay so there's the size compared to an iPhone this is a very very long graphics card alright it is also significantly taller than a normal graphics card so I honestly I don't even know where to start with this thing yeah let's do the GTX 590 size comparison so if we take the GTX 590 and lay it on top of it remember GTX 590 is a big card actually I'll be back in a second I want to show you one other one alright so there it is with the 590 but I realize the 590 is so much smaller that it just Dwarfs it so I'm going to go ahead I'm going to take the largest graphics card that I have this is a Radeon 6990 and you can see that it is even longer than a Radeon 6990 so before you even consider putting one of these cards in your system make sure you have enough oh yeah you know what not just length but make sure you have enough height clearance like if you have a side fan or something like that you might end up having to move it unless you have a very very large case so oh my goodness it's actually really heavy so why don't we start with the front of the card so we've got our dual 120 millimeter fence now these are not wussy 120 20 millimeter fans these are case fans these are not like slim ones look at the size of the hubs on them so these are going to be blowing air downward onto the heat pipes okay the heat pipe fins here and then further down onto the PCB so each GPU is actually cooled by one two three four heat pipes can you see those heat pipes in there all right so those are drawing heat away from the GPU itself up into the fins and then you can see there's actually two separate heat sinks that are mounted directly onto the GPUs themselves so here you can see the other heat pipes right there and then the other heat pipe fins and then in the middle there's actually a total separation between those two units so the way they're assembling this card is they're in all likelihood attaching those talked to and then they're fitting the shroud overtop of it so the shroud fits here onto the backplate so the backplate goes on okay that screws into those heat sinks okay and then you're screwing this shroud on and then finally you're attaching the aluminum this is just this looks like how many pieces of aluminum is this okay it's a couple different pieces but this is basically one two three four five six pieces of aluminum all fitted together and then attached to that shroud just to make it more of a sort of work of art really then just a functional graphics card so let's have a look at the back of it Wow all right on the back you see we have a back plate which says Republic of gamers Mars - it is oriented correctly so that once the card is installed in your case you will be able to read it on the top you've also got your serial number on there as well you've got most of the power delivery and some RAM and whatnots is all located on the back of the card but you can't really see them because of the backplate it uses a standard PCI Express 2.0 16 X slot and also uses a standard SLI Connect that's about the only thing about this card that is standard moving along to the top actually here I'm going to keep it oriented this sorry guys this thing's so heavy it's actually really hard to hold okay we've got Republic of gamers Mars - we've got a splitter here so both of our fans are running off 4 pin pwm power we've got our limited edition and then for PCI Express 8 pin connectors yes 4 we've also got like a turbo fan speed button here so we can ramp those fans up to 100% speed just with the touch of a button if you don't want it to be automatically managed and you want to overclock as much as possible let's move around to let's look at the back of the card we haven't really done that yet so at the back we've just got some awesome holes in the shroud and that's pretty much it there's not really much to cool back there because I don't know if you guys notice this but check this out the card actually ends here see that's the end of the PCB so this extra bit here doesn't really have much functional purpose which is interesting ok let's move around to the bottom so at the bottom you can see we've got a lot of room for airflow to come off the card so it looks like what a soos is intending is for these 120mm fans to be blowing air out the top of the card as well as the bottom of the card in the back of the card and the other more different back of the cards I guess that's the front of the card so that's going to give your motherboard some cooling okay just some some incidental airflow coming off the card you can actually see some of the RAM chips down here as well and finally let's move around to the back so in terms of our display options we have DVI DVI we have HDMI and we have DisplayPort now as soos hasn't specifically called out support for 3d vision surround so you know what maybe if someone knows if it supports it go ahead and post in the comments but my guess would be that it does support it but you would probably have to use a DVI DVI DisplayPort yeah I'm not sure actually yeah someone post in the comments let's see let's see what you guys will you guys know oh here's an interesting one if you are planning to use to Mars 2 is for Quad SLI the rampage extreme or rampage three extreme black edition is required this is recommended for the best performance filed by a dual 16x PCIe and the best cooling operation because remember with a triple flaw card you're going to need a fair number of slots in between your two 16x slots in order to make both of the cards fit in your system so other than that you know what let's just do a couple more shots of this so you able to take a little bit more footage of it and actually I forgot to tell you guys what these little Stoppers were for so these little stoppers go on the slots next to the Mars two so that the weight of the Mars two doesn't cause unnecessary strain on the PCI Express slot that it is installed in so I'll show you how that would work so you would go ahead and you would install the stoppers on by this cart or on this slot right here and then you install the Mars 2 into this slot and see how that weight is going to pull down well that stopper keeps it from flexing so much so that's that's the thinking behind those little those little black strips so I think that's pretty much it thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Mars 2 from masseuse and don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos