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

Fire Wizard · 23 Sep 2009 at 00:25

fornowagain said:
Odd I thought they did, I even quoted their spec just in case the review got pulled. Took me a few minutes to rehost the pics must have been then, not that it matters. Loads more tomorrow.

My eyes must be slowly failing me then.

Once again, I do apologies for removing Azza's thread everyone. I honestly wasn't trying to an idiot by removing it. It's just to keep everything that will be officially released, without any questions, in a whole new separate thread.

D13 · 23 Sep 2009 at 00:26

looking further at the benches, a 100 quid 4870 or 115 gtx260 is looking even better.
Ignoring the significance of dx11 a £200 4870 crossfire will outperfom a 5870 (possibly priced at 300). Those 5870's really cant be too expensive, then again what difference will the 2gb version make?
Thing is, ati really really wanted a dx11 title available to showcase, in such games it could well destroy nvidia counterparts but right now we just wouldnt know

ThorpedoUK · 23 Sep 2009 at 00:26

So we looking at 4am, 6.30am or 2pm??? any ideas???

Azza · 23 Sep 2009 at 00:28

Asus HD5870 card pictures...

ViRuS2k · 23 Sep 2009 at 00:40

Sex on Legs, But dam do they have to keep useing the same box art, FLAMEING HORSE lol

I have to say i will be going for the Asus versions

Perfect_Chaos · 23 Sep 2009 at 00:41

Which card is better then that one or sapphire?

kylew · 23 Sep 2009 at 00:45

Those ASUS cards look great, hopefully they'll be the final designs, I can't stand those horribly tacky stickers most brands use.

At least they kept the horseman to the box art and left it off the card itself

flibblesan · 23 Sep 2009 at 00:46

magicroundabout said:
hate to say it but i told you so

unless someone just coppied what i'd posted. hmmmmmmmmmmm

Yes, sorry. I was just collecting information on the internet about the 5870s. I've edited the post on the site to mention exactly where it was from.

D13 · 23 Sep 2009 at 00:47

Perfect_Chaos said:
Which card is better then that one or sapphire?

It all boils down to warranty/extras/price maybe oc etc....
We can assume all of the initial cards will have stock cooler, and by the looks of it they might all come with free copy of dirt 2

unknownsock · 23 Sep 2009 at 00:47

kylew said:
Those ASUS cards look great, hopefully they'll be the final designs, I can't stand those horribly tacky stickers most brands use.

At least they kept the horseman to the box art and left it off the card itself

Yea i agree, those cards do look pretty sweet!

Right im off to bed now, hopefully ill have some good news by the time i reach work :rolleyes:

TheRealDeal · 23 Sep 2009 at 00:48

From looking at the box it also looks like these asus cards will be coming with the voltage tweaking software so they may be good clockers like the 4890's.

Perfect_Chaos · 23 Sep 2009 at 00:50

So the ASUS cards should be better?

OCUK having many of these in or mainly sapphire cards?

TheRealDeal · 23 Sep 2009 at 00:55

Well at launch you usually find all the cards are the same stock design so all the cards are pretty much the same. The voltage software tweaker is a nice addition from asus though and i doubt there will be any programs like rivatuner supporting this card for a little while. I think on release you should be looking for the price/warranty and what is bundled with the card as to which is the best card to buy.

LeJosh · 23 Sep 2009 at 00:55

I'm pretty sure the cards will be the same on release, just depends what warranty each company doles out. You'll factory overclocked ones later on in the year no doubt.

Edit -

ThorpedoUK · 23 Sep 2009 at 00:58

TheRealDeal said:
Well at launch you usually find all the cards are the same stock design so all the cards are pretty much the same. The voltage software tweaker is a nice addition from asus though and i doubt there will be any programs like rivatuner supporting this card for a little while. I think on release you should be looking for the price/warranty and what is bundled with the card as to which is the best card to buy.

Good advice mate, noted.

ThorpedoUK · 23 Sep 2009 at 01:01

Thanks to help from guys on here, I came to the decision that my rig is either going to run:

AMD Phenom II X3 Tri Core 720 BE 2.80GHz + 5850

or

AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 BE 3.20GHz + 4890 2GB Vapor (Sapphire)

What do you think? is that CPU going to limit a 5850 and if not I'm assuming it will still roll over the QC+4890? (I know we dont have much benching to go on)

ThorpedoUK · 23 Sep 2009 at 01:05

EDIT: Bah no deeplinking...

http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,...ures-of-Sapphire-cards-Update-XFX-model/News/

flibblesan · 23 Sep 2009 at 01:08

Get the X3 and try and unlock the fourth core if you can. The 5850 really shouldn't be limited by the CPU.

Zenduri · 23 Sep 2009 at 01:21

Well hopefulyl we'll have prices and benchmarks by lunchtime today.

If the 5870 is £250 below i think ill take a punt for that when i build my new rig, if not then its the 5850, either way Im sure to see a difference over my x1650!!!!

Zenduri · 23 Sep 2009 at 01:21

Meh sorry but i had to do it..... 3500th post