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IN STOCK NOW ASUS MATRIX 5870 PLATINUM FOR £408.99 inc VAT

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Just arrivedinto stock we have the very lates Asus Matrix 5870 card for just £408.99 inc VAT.

Asus Matrix ATI Radeon HD 5870 "Platinum Edition" 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card @ £408.99 inc VAT

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Prepare to experience a riveting high-definition gaming experience with the ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series graphics processors. Expand your visual real estate across up to three displays and get lost in the action with revolutionary ATI Eyefinity Technology. Using ATI Stream technology, accelerate even the most demanding applications and do more than ever with your PC. The first to deliver full support for Microsoft DirectX 11, these GPUs enable rich, realistic visuals and explosive HD gaming performance so you can dominate the competition.

- Voltage Tweak Technology (Up to 17% performance increase)
- ASUS Super Hybrid Engine: boost up to 19% GPU performance by reducing 54% power noise
- iTracker2: the world’s only memory timing adjustment and allow you to save the favorite settings into system and recover
- Extreme Cooler: 13% Cooler and 22% Stronger Air Pressure with special designed fan
- ProbeIt: Easily measure the voltage of GPU, Memory and PCI-E bus with the Multimeter
- Core Clock: 894MHz
- Memory: 2048MB GDDR5
- Memory Clock: 4800MHz (Effective)
- Memory Bandwidth: 153.6GB/s
- Processing Cores: 1600
- Bus Type: PCI-Express 2.1
- Display Connectors: 2 Dual-Link DVI-I, 1 HDMI & 1 DisplayPort
- HDCP Capable
- DirectX 11 Support
- OpenGL 3.2 Support
- ATI CrossFireX Ready
- ATI Eyefinity Technology
- ATI Avivo HD
- ATI Stream Technology
- Warranty: 3 Years

Only £408.99 inc VAT.

ORDER NOW
 
Best looking???

It's pretty much black and not that fundamentally different to the reference cooler on the outside, just some ridgy bits.

Should clock with the best of them though.
 
You need to look in to whats gone in to this card, it's no reference model, and with other 2GB 5870's going for £400, this is the card to get. Try as I might I can't find a 5970 for £450.


Regarding looks, show me a better designed card, this also has the LED ROG logo on the side displaying different colors for different power states of the card.
 
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Bog standard 5870, with bog standard 5870 performance, because the 2gb will give you nothing at all, for over £100 more, a decent price?

A 5850 still blows a 5870 away for value, it will blow a 5870 with 2gb even further away because you literally get nothing for that performance in the massive majority of situations.

Even in triple display setups the 2gb brings you next to nothing and even in 6 display setups, where 2gb comes into play more significantly, the performance even in trifire is so low you'd be pretty daft to think 6 screens is a great gaming setup, even ignoring the crossfire 6 screen troubles which makes gaming on 6 screens quite a bit worse in all but a few driving games, than 2 screens.
 
We really need some more competition in the GPU market these prices are making my eyes water and I try hard to justify buying technology!
 
alexhull24 said:
Best looking???

It's pretty much black and not that fundamentally different to the reference cooler on the outside, just some ridgy bits.

Should clock with the best of them though.
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Not strictly true. It has a red LED backlit "Matrix" logo on the side, which changes intensity under different loads. (drools)
 
RavenXXX2 said:
You need to look in to whats gone in to this card, it's no reference model, and with other 2GB 5870's going for £400, this is the card to get.
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True I guess, but unless you're going down the eyefinity route a cheaper 480 GTX would be the better buy as it will be faster in a single monitor enviroment.
 
Yeah a 480 will be faster, but this card is not targeting your average gamer, this is for ATI enthusiasts and overclockers because this card is supposed to clock way beyond reference models.

Vid of it below.

 
And people said the 5830 was pointless? :p

If any of these sell I'll be amazed, it's clearly an amazing card, but anyone who'd spending over £400 on a graphics card and doesn't push to a 5970 must be pretty mad!

If the 5830 was £170, and this posh 5870 was £360 they'd fit in the range so much better.

alexhull24 said:
My apologies, I didn't realise it had an LED logo, this changes everything.
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Haven't lol'd so hard all week. xD
 
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Display Connectors: 2 Dual-Link DVI-I, 1 HDMI & 1 DisplayPort
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Your product description made a mistake.

There is only ONE DVI-I. This is a bummer for eyefinity. The extra 1gb memory has gone to waste.
 
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RavenXXX2 said:
Yeah a 480 will be faster, but this card is not targeting your average gamer, this is for ATI enthusiasts and overclockers because this card is supposed to clock way beyond reference models.

Vid of it below.
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The problem is, its supposed to overclock way beyond reference CLOCKS, but models, well, you'd have to see how it goes, its gone with a crap cooler so pushing higher voltage to get higher clocks doesn't seem like a fantastic idea.

Likewise, the extra power circuitry, remember how many motherboards have come out with ridiculous numbers of power phases over recommended, and offered 0% extra overclocking? Its a gimmick more often than not.

If every chip that goes on these boards is still limited at 1000-1050Mhz in general on air for instance, better power circuitry won't enable better overclocks, it would help of course if the cores on all reference ones can actually do 1200Mhz on air, but are held back to 1Ghz due to not clean enough power delivery.

Therein lies the problem, without knowing thats a limit on reference designs, you can't assume it will overclock further with cleaner power and you'd be surprised how clean the power delivery is anyway.

I doubt it will overclock noticeably higher than a reference model, the extra memory will do nothing at all for performance. The memory voltage control is the only possibly beneficial thing there is, but thats assuming the memory will scale well with voltage, it often doesn't, back on DDR1 it certainly did, since faster ddr2 voltage hasn't been a real issue. As for timings, they are so relaxed on graphics memory to enable the uber high clock speeds, the chips themselves are TUNED IN for very specific performance, we've had timing changable memory before, and it was never remotely worth changing at all.

Tighter timings and less bandwidth on cards designed for high bandwidth and high latency, it strikes me as more of a gimmick than anything else.

Its overkill, though of course, if you were going for quadfire, and had limitless cash, you might go for them, but for £400, 2x5850's would spank them, for marginally more a 5970 would spank it.

If 2gb helped, it might be worth spending extra, it doesn't in any usable situation though. Next gen, with double the power, or even the gen after(even more so as the 6xxx series is set to be a neutered next gen thanks to TSMC), and 2gb and 6 screen setups MIGHT have enough power to run them and need the memory. Right now 6 screens is a pipedream and doesn't work well and quadfire 5870's isn't fast enough to run it great with 1, 2 or 20gb of memory.
 
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