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In 2019 i built my 3rd m-itx computer, designed and built by myself based on the planet Mars. the last 2 cases / computers were based on Earth, but this time i wanted something different and went for a custom built Parvum X2.0 m-itx case with different than standard dimensions, i made it approx. one inch more in height so it can take a 2.7 slot GPU The main components are: Case - Parvum X2.0 m-itx special dimension case in (black main panels) (brown gloss front panel) (red frosted back panel) m/board - Asus m-itx Z370 ROG Strix i-gaming motherboard CPU - Intel i9 9900 with Noctua NH-D9L CPU cooler GPU - Asus 2070 super RTX duel series PSU - Silverstone FSX-L SX700 LPT fully modular power supply NOW with Cable Mod custom cables. memory - 32gb 3200mhz DDR4 GSkill trident Z kit main drive (C) Team Group T-Force Cardea IOPS 1TB nvme gen3 M.2 SSD drive games drive (D)Team Group T-Force Cardea 2TB nvme gen4 M.2 SSD drive LED lighting front fan - Corsair 140mm PWM Blue LED premium fan top fans - 2x 140mm super thin fans rear fans - 2x Noctua 80mm PWM case fans. Monitor - Asus PB278Q WQHD 2K (1440p) 27" LCD LED monitor (as reviewed by Linus) totally awesome all-rounder monitor at time of purchase. CableMod custom cables. overall evaluation: Small, compact unit with adequate power, performance for most modern games, air cooled is simple & effective, no problem with overheating, quite and looks amazing at night. built to budget, works perfect. all components are new. thank you for checking this out, its the only one in the world, custom case, my design and build. i can update the build pics later, ones now reflect the finished build. note: some pictures are taken when i had the old memory kit installed which was a 16GB Team group Vulcan 3200mhz kit.

Finally, I bought all the parts for my PC build with Phanteks evolv shift mini case. (Not the X version, the smaller version) I see a lot of reviews about the cases saying that there is rack of air flow. Then I saw this unique fan from InWin. The MARS!! This fan is adjustable fan which can extend out and pivot to different position. (please search for it, it is pretty cool) So I was thinking about using the fan to improve the air flow in the case. I tried to install it on top of the case but it does not have enough clearance. I am planning to mount it on bottom front and position it to the middle of the case. Do you guys think adding this fan on the middle of the fan can improve any air flow or temperature of the case overall? Need advise!!

Hey Everyone, For a science assignment I need to know when Mars was first discovered, if anyone knows please give me an exact answer and not a bunch of useless information. Thanks.

Hey all, So this is my first time posting to the forum. I am trying to build a beast of a liquid cooling setup. I am the Software Engineering Lead on a team to build a robot that can theoretically mine for future Martian colonies. We are using some standard off the shelf parts and a budget of several thousand US dollars. The problem is we want to cool this without the use of fans. Basically, we are going to take a cooling block and pump liquid around the CPU that then is pumped into a massive radiator array. Pictures and comments will follow, but I just wanted to see what people think about this or if anyone had questions about the system in general. Again, pictures and videos of the interior of the system will follow. Edit (4/17/2018): It is looking like we will use an electric thermopile to chill the coolant in the radiator/reservoir that will, in turn, bring down the CPU temps so not that far off the "CPU cooler bong" brought up by RoyalGamer1.

You know as weird as it sounds, Yep it's true , Astronomers scanning high resolution close up image of the Planets surface revealed Dunes that resembled Morse code ,Although it is highly unlikely that it just happened as a direct since the language was originated & made by us to be mimicked out there with no complex life form is kinda far fetched , but it's gonna still hype up some people.. Coz Alienz Ded eet! This image of dark dunes on Mars was taken on Feb. 6, 2016, at 15:16 local Mars time (i don't know what mars time is ) The Translated message is apparently this . . . " NEE NED ZB 6TNN DEIBEDH SIEFI EBEEE SSIEI ESEE SEEE !! " This reminds me of that time when i tried to connect my 56kb pci modem to the so called broadband internet back when shit was hot, either that or SKIRRLEX's cousin was trying to send a message for him to stop doing weird music down here, or Hollywood lied & Matt Damon is still out there crying for help in all langage or there's an alien High as f**k writing down mixed message n shit just to f**k with NASA, This was decoded by Planetary scientist Veronica Bray Current technical explanation is that the amarkings are found within a crater formed by an asteroid impact, the shape of that assisted in forming the patterns, circular depression has had a weird effect on both the amount of sand available to form dunes and the way the winds carve up the dunes, So instead of the long, flowing lines of dunes we're used to seeing on our planet, the winds on this part of Mars swirled in such a way to create distinct dots and dashes of dunes. which is similar to a morse code pattern So there you go, a weird & interesting story, what do you think? Post em down below... .. ..... ........ ......... Source : (NASA) https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/martian-morse-code News Article: http://edition.cnn.com/2016/07/12/health/mars-morse-code-trnd/index.html

Still to this day I think that the Asus ROG MARS II is the coolest looking GPU. I vote for Asus to bring back the MARS cards when the next generation of nvidia cards come out. Please tell me someone agrees.

http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/24/curiosity-finds-nitrates-on-mars/ Coming after the Mars One Project delay, Is it a good or a bad thing?

Hey there, I'm currently in the market for a new graphics card, as my GTX550 Ti is pretty outdated by now and is starting to die. I could get an XFX R9 280X and a ASUS Mars 760x2 for about the same price, but I can't decide on which one to get. I'm using a 1080p 60Hz monitor and I mainly use my PC for gaming (CS:GO, GTA V, Payday 2, ...) and some editing/rendering/3D-modelling. I've been on the Internet for at least 6 hours, trying to find the better card, but it's such a hard decision for me. The Mars 760 has overall better performance in games aswell as in Adobe AE/PS/PP, but has a lower framebuffer and because it's a SLI setup, there should be a lot more microstuttering. Reasons for me to go with... ...the R9 280X: - bigger frame buffer (3GB) - stronger single GPU - better looks ...the Mars 760x2: - better performance - CUDA So, which one would you get? I'm not planning on upgrading my monitor for quite some time, so 1080p 60Hz for me it is. Thanks in advance, Saphio PS: Sorry for any mistakes. If you find any, you can keem 'em!

UPDATE : @Slick it's 99 Humans and 1 alien because of the 100 people selected is a 38-year-old guy from Poland who simply goes by the name "M1-K0," and claims to be a Martian sent to Earth. [from WAN show : ] Over 200,000 people applied for the chance to visit the red planet and never come back. Now Mars One has whittled the applicant pool down to just 100. A hundred lucky dreamers are one step closer to achieving their dream of dying on Mars. Mars One, the private nonprofit hoping to establish a base on the red planet with the help of crowdfunding and a series of global, reality show-esque media events, has named its 100 final astronaut candidates. Over 202,000 wannabe Martian explorers applied at the beginning of the process. That group was quickly reduced to just over 1,000 in the first round of cuts, then to 660, and now we're at the third round, which includes 50 men and 50 women (39 from the Americas, including 33 from the US, plus 31 from Europe, 16 from Asia, 7 from Africa, and 7 from Oceania.) The remaining hopefuls are a colorful crew, including the 38-year-old guy from Poland who simply goes by the name "M1-K0," and claims to be a Martian sent to Earth who would now be happy to help us explore his home planet. Up next, we get to see M1-K0 and the other 99 in action. The remaining selection rounds will put the candidates into teams that will train at a facility set up to mimic a Martian outpost. So begins the reality-show portion of Mars One, it would appear. Hopefully it won't mimic the outpost as visualized by a team of MIT students who postulated last year that the astronauts would start to die off after just two months on Martian soil. That claim drew the ire of Mars One head Bas Lansdorp, followed by a testy back and forth. If you didn't make the final 100, don't despair. Mars One says new application opportunities will allow for reapplications and for additional applicants in 2015 and beyond. Or you could apply at SpaceX -- Elon Musk also has his sights set on the red planet in the not-too-distant future. Meanwhile, check out the below promo video from Mars One announcing the latest round.

What better way to get people to take Mars colonization seriously than to tell them they could have their Netflix, Facebook and porn on the martian surface? I applaud his lofty goals and his need to push things further than anyone else before him, it will only benefit us in the long run. Now, if he could just go ahead and make terrestrial satellite internet fast and not entirely useless that would be great. https://www.theverge.com/2015/1/16/7569333/elon-musk-wants-to-spend-10-billion-building-the-internet-in-space

I bought an asus mars 760x2 because I wanted the most cuda cores I could afford and not the single best card. because of both 760's the card is described as 4gb of ram when 2gb is usable Is this the only spec that doesn't translate into doubling? I plan to use this mainly for rendering purposes. I know octane renderer prefers non sli, multiple gpu setups. I guess another question I have is, if it truly is only 2gb of usable vram... what does that say for the 512bit memory bus? Thanks in advance!

Hi all here is a good deal on the asus mars 760 http://www.ebuyer.com/618534-asus-gtx-760x2-4gb-gddr5-dual-dvi-hdmi-displayport-pci-e-graphics-card-mars760-4gd5 for only £230 Not bad at all

Hey guys. Trying to sell a Mars 760 on kijiji and someone message telling me that they are going to get recalled and the rest gonna be liquidated. Is this true? Tried searching the net but nothing popping up. Just hoping to get 600 for it BNIB. Funny thing is the name from the email is LUKE. lolz. Is that "slick" giving me some inside info. LoLz. Thanks.

Source: Pcper I'm not familiar with the Mars line of cards, and don't know whether previous Mars cards have had dual-GPU setups. It's certainly not as good a value as two GTX 760's, but in a two-slot form factor it's certainly compelling in some ways.

Welcome to my review of the ASUS ROG MARS 760 x2, I believe that is the official name of the video card, or at least that it is what it's on the box. Anyway, I would like to start the review with a brief explanation of why I bought this card, because I am sure that there will be a lot of criticism towards my choice, not only because it's a dual-gpu card, but also because there are higher-end single graphics card solutions out there. (or is it?) I bought this card, because I kind of destroyed my old MSI GTX 770 Lightning. Due to excessive overclock and BIOS flashes the card started showing artifacts and was crashing in games. That forced me to file an RMA and after a couple of weeks the retailer told me to chose a new card, since the old one was beyond any chance of repair. Since I had bought my GTX 770 at launch I paid for it around 430e, a price for, which now I could easily buy a GTX 780. But the GTX 780 isn't that much more powerful, especially compared to my super overclocked GTX 770 so I decided to step up to something better. The problem was that the cheapes GTX 780TI was 615e, money which I am just no willing to spend on a card. Here is where the ASUS ROG MARS 760 x2 comes in. It's only 510e and is significantly more powerful than a stock GTX 780TI, at least benchmark wise. Specs: Graphics Engine - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760x2 Bus Standard - PCI Express 3.0 Video Memory - GDDR5 4GB (2GB per core) Bummer Engine Clock - GPU Boost Clock : 1072 MHz GPU Base Clock : 1006 MHz CUDA Core - 2304 Memory Clock - 6004 MHz ( 1501 MHz GDDR5 ) Memory Interface - 512-bit Dimensions - 11 " x 4.38 " x 1.6 " Inch Power Consumption - Just a bit under 500W Since there are numerous unboxings and reviews out there I will share my experiences with the card. The card itself is pretty cool. The custom aluminum shroud and lid MARS logo on the side do really make it awesome looking. It looks exceptionally well when paired with a ROG motherboard, in my case the Rampage IV Gene x79. The entire ASUS red/black theme is insane.The ROG logo on the backplate is in the correct position as well, I am mentioning this because some manufacturers (Gigabyte) obviously don't know the orientation of a video card when installed in a case. there is also no sagging at all thanks to the backplate and entire aluminum shroud. One thing that I don't like though are the two horrible green LEDs that show whether the PCIe connectors are plugged in properly. That is the stupidest thing ever. Why do we need those? If the connectors are not plugged in the card won't start, simple as that... Performance wise I have no complaints. The card is rock solid and performs really well, especially with the latest Beta driver from nVidia - 337.50. There is quite a significant performance gain in many of the games and benchmarks compared to the older software. The benchmarks are done with the card at completely stock speeds, with no overclock whatsoever. The 2GB of VRAM can be an issue for future games though. I would have liked to see a 4GB of effective VRAM being implemented on such an expensive card. In terms of overclocking at lest my card doesn't have that much potential. This is manly because the card runs quite hot at stock speeds. Both cores go as high as 80C (the built-in threshold), however if I start overclocking I would get as high as 95C, which is too much for me and just not worth the extra 1-2 FPS. Having said that, I must acknowledge that the airflow to the card is somewhat restricted by the HDD cage, which I do plan to take out in the not too distant future. Despite the lack of overclocking potential, my card does boost quite well, even maybe too well. At idle it sits around 1076MHz on the core with 50C on both cores, but when under load it goes as high as 1200MHz with up to 80C on both cores, without any tinkering in the GPU Tweak. This is quite impressive for a dual-gpu card. Now a few words about the GPU Tweak. It is horrible, especially compared to something as perfect as MSI Afterburner. The fact that the button "Sync Across Both Cards" doesn't work from time to time is unacceptable. In addition to that, the graphs cannot be cleared... You are forced to restart the program to clear them... Really ASUS?! Is it so hard to make it like the Afterburner? Conclusion: Pros: - Looks outstanding - Has a unique design - Performs really well for it's price - GPU Boost 2.0 works perfectly - No sagging Cons: - Runs hot, really hot - Only 2GB of effective VRAM - Practically no overclocking - Pricey

Story at /. Huh. I do not know what to think about this. Personally, I would not do it due to family and such (the basic reasons), but I can imagine people who feel the need to literally "get away from it all". Though this is quite the extreme of that. But 100,000? Seriously? :| *sigh* In my personal opinion, I believe that those who would be willing to leave because of problems with their life here will just replicate said problems on Mars, so long as they are not dependent on things they could not get on Mars (drugs, specifically, among other things). Just saying. However, that is not to say that everyone who would be willing to do this is running from something. I am sure some people just like the idea/mystery of facing challenges on Mars.

NASA has doled out a research grant to develop a prototype 3D printer for food, so astronauts may one day enjoy 3D-printed pizza on Mars Source: http://www.space.com/21254-3d-printed-food-development-funded-by-nasa-video.html

Bitcoin, the currency of the future just might be outgrowing Earth. The Mars One is a non profit organization with the goal of a permanent colony on Mars. The organization recently gaining media attention for reaching and passing 100,000 people interested applicants. Allowing for the world to aid in funding via donations. Enthusiasts wanting to help push mankind into the future had only paypal as an option. While this method of sending/receiving money for the most part worked. When it came to global use and accessibility there were many limitations, fees, regulations, roadblocks, and countries that were flat out unsupported. Recently Mars One started accepting Bitcoins for donations. Truly allowing easy, global participation for those wanting to donate instantly with the knowledge that 100% of their donation funding the organization. Who's to say the local form of currency for trading and transferring funds in the Mars Colony won't be bitcoin or some variation of digital cryptocurrency. To donate, or check where your country stands in the total amount of donations please visit. http://www.mars-one.com/en/donate Or read more about the mission here. http://www.mars-one.com/en/ To learn more about bitcoin, check the Folding@home, Boinc, and Coin Mining section of Linus Tech Tips Forum. http://linustechtips.com/main/forum/37-foldinghome-boinc-and-coin-mining/

the facebook post is here: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=605601756149893&set=a.186749591368447.43127.179161458793927&type=1 I think it's probably going to be one of the AMD R9 cards. Although I'm hoping for a Mars or Ares card

im thinking of upgrading my dual 670 evga ftw signature 2 to an asus mars 760.. what do you think? is it worth the upgrade?