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Which 5850?

!TIMMY!

!TIMMY!

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I am looking at getting a 5850 now with a view to adding in another at a later date for some 3 x 24" Eyefinity action, to replace my 4870 1gb's.

My main concern is heat dump, I have internal WC where my Rad sits at the top of the case so I need a GC cooler that exhausts the air out the back of my case like the Vortexx Neo's do on my 4870's.

So my question is which 5850 do I go for? A stock cooler one? Is there a 3rd party cooler like the vortexx Neo for the 5850?
 
!TIMMY! said:
I am looking at getting a 5850 now with a view to adding in another at a later date for some 3 x 24" Eyefinity action, to replace my 4870 1gb's.

My main concern is heat dump, I have internal WC where my Rad sits at the top of the case so I need a GC cooler that exhausts the air out the back of my case like the Vortexx Neo's do on my 4870's.

So my question is which 5850 do I go for? A stock cooler one? Is there a 3rd party cooler like the vortexx Neo for the 5850?
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If you can't wait for the relatively imminent ATI refresh, I'd get this:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-215-AS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=411

Voltage tweak tech straight out of the box.
 
creed said:
What refresh is this then?
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"AMD did not show off any new GPUs at Computex, even behind closed doors, but that Southern Islands is still on track for a 2010 launch. Chips that cannot be demonstrated in early June naturally do not come out during back-to-school (BTS) season, a crucial timeframe for computer makers and chipmakers.

But according to a news-story published by Computer Base web-site, ATI has a clear intention to release its Southern Islands this year and sometimes in the autumn, not winter.


The SI family will offer higher performance compared to currently available ATI Radeon HD 5000 “Evergreen” line, but will hardly be considerably more advanced in terms of feature-set.


It is reported that designers of the new GPUs concentrated mostly on improving efficiency, but not on building something completely new from scratch."
 
So it will be like the 4890 coming out to replace the 4870. Hmmm, alternatively I could get a 1 5770 now and wait, although a 5770 will struggle with 3 monitors.
 
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