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At the Asus booth there was a heavy emphasis on motherboards as we would expect. Probably the most interesting model was the Crosshair IV Extreme. On a hardware level it allows us to install four 5870 cards in CrossFireX but value is also added by the inclusion of enhanced control software for overclocking. The suite also includes an app which allows control of the board speed from the iPhone. Regular readers will remember our Asus MARS SLI review, looking at a unique product which Asus designed and manufactured to be the fastest and highest specification GeForce GTX 200 series product. On show today was the next model from the same design team, the Ares which is based the 5970 idea. This model takes the 5000 series about as far as it can go in terms of specification due to the use of two overclocked 5870 GPUs and 4GB of GDDR5.
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