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Discussion On The ATI Radeon 5*** Series Before They Have Been Released Thread

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They will have 2 variants, there will be the standard which has dual dvi, hdmi and a display port then theres the "Six" version which has 6 display ports.

The beauty of display port is it can be adapted to any output so DVI,VGA,HDMI.
And its free because you dont need to license it like you do HDMI as its a free standard.

More info here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisplayPort

HTH

Ulti
 
Ultim8 said:
They will have 2 variants, there will be the standard which has dual dvi, hdmi and a display port then theres the "Six" version which has 6 display ports.

The beauty of display port is it can be adapted to any output so DVI,VGA,HDMI.
And its free because you dont need to license it like you do HDMI as its a free standard.

More info here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisplayPort

HTH

Ulti
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...wait i gotta buy a licence to buy a hmdi cable???
darnit =[
 
HDMI Adopters pay an annual fee of ten thousand dollars (US$10,000). The annual fee is due upon the execution of the Adopter Agreement, and must be paid on the anniversary of this date each year thereafter. Note that HDMI does provide an alternative annual fee payment for small-volume manufacturers (10,000 units or less). Please see Attachment B of the Adopter Agreement for details.
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Please see Attachment B of the Adopter Agreement for royalty and annual fee details.
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If you make more then 10,000 and pay the yearly fee of 10,000 then for each is between 15c and 1 cents.
 
magick said:
Will the 5870 fit in a coolermaster sileo 500 case?
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It may be a bit of a squeeze as that is not a big case, the card looks to be about an inch longer than a standard ATX motherboard, luckily the power sockets are on the outside rather than the end though.

You may manage it, I would wait until we have exact measurements so you can check if you can get it in, if not there are plenty of bigger cases about for very little cash.
 
I'm actually excited about this card and I have dfinitely decided to get one. Only thing is do I go display port or what.

I understand the 5870 will be 6x DisplayPort only? And the 5850 will be 2xDVI? I use 4 screens atm so I would have to replace these... but I don't want to be limited to two screens hmmmm
 
Psy-Blade said:
I'm actually excited about this card and I have dfinitely decided to get one. Only thing is do I go display port or what.

I understand the 5870 will be 6x DisplayPort only? And the 5850 will be 2xDVI? I use 4 screens atm so I would have to replace these... but I don't want to be limited to two screens hmmmm
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Replace the screens ? There are plenty of display port > DVI adapters available. Might be worth looking in to these ? :)
 
man i was planning on getting the 2gig versions.
i wont be happy if in the box the card doesnt come with 2x displayport to hdmi adapters are in there aswell as 2x display port to dvi adapters.
 
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