Quad SLI Asus Mars GTX295 reviewd.

http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews.php?reviewid=832&pageid=1

Remember that insane Asus Mars GTX295 that sandwitched two 2gb GTX285's together?

Well these guys have no less managed to get ahold of 2 of these cards and have thrown together some benchmarks.


Edited by sirsiddius - 26 Aug 2009 at 6:40am

all that money and just a few fps better then 1 x 295?

Ya that is the point, its 2 x 285 in sli basically, its got a $2000 price or something and all it can do is 4 to 8 fps better then a 295?

With DS's price's right now you can get an entire new system from them for about the same price. about all those Mars cards are good for are bragging rights.

just looking on it...

Nope just plug them directly into the power grid!

na a 1200w will run sli mars

or the power grid will do

poooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool.............................

Folding is a worldwide distributed computing effort conducted by Stanford University to understand how proteins assemble themselves. The real world applications of this research includes potential cures for diseases such as Alzheimer's, cancer, and Parkinson's.

Originally posted by DST4ME Folding is a worldwide distributed computing effort conducted by Stanford University to understand how proteins assemble themselves. The real world applications of this research includes potential cures for diseases such as Alzheimer's, cancer, and Parkinson's.

Read: it's something for nerds to brag about of forums:
Eg: "I got 100,000 folding points today on my gtx295x4 superrig today LOL OMG /10char"

Peace out, did you have a bad day or what? If you do frequent hardware forums they're full of threads from people who claim they can get through x amounts of points per day.

That's probably what appeals the most about folding. The bragging contest about who has the best setup, finding a cure to all of those random diseases is just a side show.

Anyways thats how I see it.

Originally posted by sirsiddius Peace out, did you have a bad day or what? If you do frequent hardware forums they're full of threads from people who claim they can get through x amounts of points per day.That's probably what appeals the most about folding. The bragging contest about who has the best setup, finding a cure to all of those random diseases is just a side show.Anyways thats how I see it.

Just because some stupid kids brag about stupid points, you have come to the conclusion that proteien folding is for points and a cure for cancer is a side show?

I guess it all depends how you look at it, I couldn't disagree with you more, nothing is impossible, and answers are not going to jump in your lap, if you think that man will never find cure for cancer then you are way off, and they will one day find the cure for cancer, be it by prevention and/or treatment till the cancer is gone/prevented from coming back (aka cured), they will find it cause it exist, and by protein folding you will understand it better thus you can find a way to prevent/get rid of it faster/sooner.

It all depends how you look at it, one can do it/think of it and only see one side of it, that side being stupid points and bragging about those points (aka meaningless)

or

you can concentrate on the positive side that actually tries to help and has some real reasons behind it.

I also find it interesting that you say the cure for cancer is in trials, yet the entire Stanford university tho is apparently not informed of that fact, and nor have I herd anything about it.

so care to tell us about this one cure for all cancers out there that is in trials and going to here by 2012?

and I hope you are not talking about Microbots.

and even after having said all that there are many other diseases this can help.

I'm not sure how you are going to convince anybody to agree with you that folding is for stupid meaningless points and to ignore the fact that it will help scientist understand these disease better, thus helping find a cure sooner.

and to answer your question, yes charity did exist before there ever was a tax to put on them. There you go again concentrating on the meaningless part of something and not the other part of it that very important, taxed or not why wouldn't people help others that need help? or are you suggesting that if there was no tax for charities then homeless people/ cancer, cancer groups/ starving kids, all would not exist? either way it makes no sense.

I'm not even gonna really respond to any of that, its just ridiculous,

they are studying the cancer and cells so they can understand it, just because we don't know something now does not mean we will never know it/understand it, the say otherwise is just ridiculous.

the below statement is purely concentrating on the negative, there is not one hint of folding real reason there:

Originally posted by sirsiddius ]Read: it's something for nerds to brag about of forums:Eg: "I got 100,000 folding points today on my gtx295x4 superrig today LOL OMG /10char"

60 minutes can kiss my ass, I have so many stories of how they twist stories around to make them sound like a big deal that its not even funny, like the one story they did on how home security did not stop a burglar from getting into your house without anybody knowing and thus are pointless, what was their big reason behind it? it was this stupid and mindless reason:

"if you leave a window open and you don't have motion sensors, a burglar can come thru that window and your alarm will never go off"

now how the heck is the security alarm responsible for you leaving your window open I don't know but that night they sure did blame the home security for it.

further more its just ridiculous to name 60 minutes as a source for anything scientific.

name a charity? there are many charitys around the world that we have never herd of here and the country they are in taxes don't work the same way as here.

Iran being one. then there are small charities that local people just volunteer in to help their own people.

I find it funny that you are telling me what reality is, since you are the one lost in your own perception.

for example:

On a personal note, I'm a folder, I'm dropping $2000 on 4 x 295 alone so I can do my little part, how many times have you herd me say one thing about points?

see the problem is that you are so lost in your perception that you think everybody else is wrong.

I'm sorry to be the one to break it to you but reality is not what you think it is as far as folding goes, if you take a good look you will see you are the idealistic one. I happen to be a very factual person, and at all times understand that that are the facts then there is what I think.

when you look at the real picture, the real/big picture, you realize that points don't' mean sh*t to the research, thus they have no value, no matter what you say the reality is that foldings biggest point is to help research, just because you think its being done for points, its does not change the research its providing, that will always be much more important then some points that don't mean anything. Yes some sites are giving away things in order to get people to run FAH, but that does not mean everybody folding is doing it for that reason, maybe 30% of the idiots out there are doing it for points, but most of us are doing it for research you can make a statement like " it's something for nerds to brag about of forums", I'm sorry but that is looking at it from a very narrow lens.


Bottom line is that you have your views I have mine, all I'm saying is that please don't make comments like that about folders, not all folders are stupid and the real folders have a high majority.

Edited by DST4ME - 28 Aug 2009 at 5:58am

I wasn't aware that finding a cure for say cancer and such took only 6 years or whatever, again its ridiculous to try and argue that since it has found no cure, it will never help find a cure for anything. there are many new findings of manipulation of DNA/genes that have come from FAH. look around you will find them.

now like I said you have your perception of how things are, and others have their's, so leave it at that.



Edited by DST4ME - 28 Aug 2009 at 6:31am

Originally posted by satsunada First off, i'm not sirsiddius.. lemme repeat that. I'M NOT SIRSIDDIUS. That said, I have nothing against folding. Like i've said half a dozen times, I like the idea.   Secondly, I posted 2 links. One with the first video I could find on youtube, the other of the actual organization with links to accredited, peer-reviewed medical journals, scientific hard data, and the names and timeline of events regarding all of John Kanzius's research and developments.  The research is sound and backed by the M.D. Anderson Cancer Research Center and the University of Pittsburgh.  It's real, it works. If you knew anything about the FDA, you'd know it takes FOREVER to get approval to mainstream a product. That's why it's stuck. You want to know why you've not heard of it? Because drug companies don't want you to know it. They can't sell a cure... it's a losing deal.. and they sure aren't gonna go quietly into the night when they're making BILLIONS on chemotherapy and medical tools.   Seriously though, research what things are before barking that i'm talking ridiculous. It's rather obvious to me that you have no clue what you are actually doing by doing this Folding thing. You know the ideal, you trust the people behind it. That's fine and dandy. In reality, what the project will likely result in is better understanding of narcotics and pharmaceuticals and their tailoring to diseases. No cures... just more drugs. Again, you lose money with a cure.   Oh.. and i'm not a fan of you getting the last word on things and then trying to snuff the discussion out. I do, however, agree.. we all have different perceptions.

You are correct about cancer cells and how they "become".  A cell begins its mutation a good 4 to 5 years prior to the diagnosis.  It's exactly as you've stated in how the correlation between what causes cancer and the inevitability of getting the cancer is based on so many variables around us, and within us.  Genetics have always been a profound factor in the hereditary "passing on" of geno-deficiencies. In other words... I agree with you.  Arguing with this guy that is so drunk on who he thinks he is to everyone is pointless.  The common thread in his response is that he never concedes. Even when you agree with him on some points, he will never see any of yours though you back them with data, just as he does when trying to prove his points.

I never disagreed with the comments he made toward how cancer cells work, my disagreement is that you can't predict the future and you can't say that by understanding things better we are not going to be on our way to finding answers, research is the first step to just about anything.

and you can't say that since the research has not yielded anything great so far, that it never will, like I said so far FAH has help find many new information we did not have before, and for the last time cancer is only one of many other things it can help us understand better.

Edited by DST4ME - 29 Aug 2009 at 1:20am

WTF DOES FOLDING, CANCER, AND ALL THIS OTHER CRAP HAVE TO DO WITH QUAD SLI?.....you would think that this thread would be about discussions and opinions from other ppl about MARS quad sli, but no...u guys have to be so sensitive and acting like little kids arguing about the most irrelevant crap. when we do find the cure for cancer, cool, let's celebrate...until then STFU, i hate it when threads go way out of topic. I mean no disrepect to anyone...so cut the crap and move on.....