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

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Mmm_Badger_Soup said:
God I miss my Spectrum 48k.....There were never these sort of worries.
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Not true, if your slightly clueless parents got the 16k one and you needed a 32k Rampack upgrade to play anything beyond Horace goes Skiing ...

and they were highly static sensitive and easy to ruin just by touching them, Dad spent ages making sure he was properly earthed ( he was an electrician by trade ) :)

Happy days :)
 
Fire Wizard said:
We may well start getting reviews of ATI's new graphics cards later on today. If you take a look at the date and time of Guru3Ds news here, it was posted on the 22nd of September at 7.29pm.
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If the NDA threads correct then wouldnt that still be US 7.29PM on 22nd which would actually still be sometime around 6.30 am tommorow morning dependant on the timezone ?
 
Fire Wizard said:
We may well start getting reviews of ATI's new graphics cards later on today. If you take a look at the date and time of Guru3Ds news here, it was posted on the 22nd of September at 7.29pm.
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I'd be surprised, the NDA lasts until a time, not just a date.

For us the time is 05:01 tomorrow, if Guru3D are X hours ahead of us then they may well have to wait until 05:01+X their time.

Basically, it should be about 16 hours before anything can officially come out I reckon, regardless of whereabouts in the world you are.
 
JAKUS said:
I would think the opposite !, It needs way more hot air exhaust than that, the card must have internal vents also....poor

Think the Cards will be silent at idle (due to power management) but more noisy than they could have been under load.
The all around covers/heatsinks are not going to help that much !
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You're probably right. I was thinking that the small exhaust vent meant that it didn't need anything bigger and that was a good sign.

What I really need to know is how it's tdp will compare to my 260. My loop has limited cooling capacity and I can't afford to be dumping more heat into it.
 
Kenai said:
I'd be surprised, the NDA lasts until a time, not just a date.

For us the time is 05:01 tomorrow, if Guru3D are X hours ahead of us then they may well have to wait until 05:01+X their time.

Basically, it should be about 16 hours before anything can officially come out I reckon, regardless of whereabouts in the world you are.
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does that mean that they couldn't be put on the site until that time tomoz?
 
After we reported that the anisotropic filter of the HD 5000 series seems to work perfectly angle-undependent - though the slight angle-dependency of the HD 2000- to HD 4000 series would not differ a lot from the better and round blossom of the HD 5000 series -, it leaks through from other sources that the main problem has not been pursued.

So we have information on hand that the filter is still flickering stronger than on current Geforce graphic cards, which relates to under-sampling. By this, although ATI saves two frequencies of the texture units and so gains higher performance, the screen quality has to suffer.

If at least the quality without A.I. will be available with other options, we can not be certain, yet.

Anyway, we can already be disappointed, that AMD did not learn from the past and refuses perfect image quality for the purchasers of a high-end graphic card, although performance is available en masse, as so often.
Almost cynically said, that Crossfire does not work anymore with A.I. deactivated - and so with still acceptable filter performance. So purchasers of multi GPU systems or X2 cards will still be locked out completely.
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http://www.hardware-infos.com/news.php?news=3208&sprache=1

Fill yer boots :D
 
kablooey said:
If I were a billionaire I swear I would buy the entire UK stock allocation just to see the nerd rage.

Can you imagine...
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Prepare for their rage....







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neil473 said:
Not true, if your slightly clueless parents got the 16k one and you needed a 32k Rampack upgrade to play anything beyond Horace goes Skiing ...

and they were highly static sensitive and easy to ruin just by touching them, Dad spent ages making sure he was properly earthed ( he was an electrician by trade ) :)

Happy days :)
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LOL! MEMORIES!

My Dad was an Electrical Engineer [he designed and built TV's as a hobby :faint:] He bought the ZX80 kit to build it AND the "Black Watch" as well!
 
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